Part of why the Energiewende was expensive was that it provided long term financial incentives for those who invested in renewables when they weren't yet economically competitive.
If you bought solar panels 20 years ago you received subsidies for every year since then at the prices of the past.
In a way Germany bankrolled a lot of the renewable development with this. Of course it wasn't viable to continue this so German government scaled back the scheme aggressively, which unfortunately killed the solar industry in Germany almost entirely (roughly 10 years ago).
Today everything has changed. Renewables are now cheaper than fossils and thus expanding at incredible rates. There is no point in turning back to nuclear power which just got worse and worse from their economics.
If you bought solar panels 20 years ago you received subsidies for every year since then at the prices of the past.
In a way Germany bankrolled a lot of the renewable development with this. Of course it wasn't viable to continue this so German government scaled back the scheme aggressively, which unfortunately killed the solar industry in Germany almost entirely (roughly 10 years ago).
Today everything has changed. Renewables are now cheaper than fossils and thus expanding at incredible rates. There is no point in turning back to nuclear power which just got worse and worse from their economics.