[dmagee]

Nuclear power.

[ahartmetz]

Can't be everything. Electrical power is like 20-35% or so of total power used in most countries. I just checked some statistics of the Umweltbundesamt, the German ~environment protection office. The electrical fraction is suprisingly low! Though it's supposed to increase because most renewable energy production is electric.

My guess is nuclear energy, more efficient cars, better insulated houses, and less heavy industry.

[avar]

You have the cause and effect backwards. German homes are electric heated at a rate of around 5%[1], French at around 30%[2] (page 7).

As electricity prices are lowered (e.g. by state investment in nuclear) various things that use fossil fuels will shift over to electric.

1. https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/heating-40-millio...

2. https://heatpumpingtechnologies.org/annex46/wp-content/uploa...

3. https://strom-report.com/electricity-prices-europe/

[AtlasBarfed]

If you have a price competitive modular rapidly approved and scaled meltdown proof plant design that can be built in a couple years.

Unfortunately, that does not exist in nuclear power. As in, not a single one of those requirements is fulfilled by any commercial design.

[dmagee]

https://ourworldindata.org/energy/country/france#how-much-el...

[ZeroGravitas]

One of the interesting things demonstrated there is that you really don't want to be generating most of your electricity from imported oil during a global oil shock.