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24. As you can see, renewables do not play much of a role

Fig. 4.

Differential impact of decommissioning on the global electricity sector measured by changes of cumulative electricity generation from 2010 to 2020. The reference case is always without decommissioning. Upper: No carbon budget. Lower: Carbon budget imposed. Left: Scenarios in which investment in new nuclear power plants are feasible. Right: Cases without investments in new nuclear capacity. Within each of the four graphs, the bottom stacked bar shows the case of only the oldest vintage (i.e., everything built before 1973) being decommissioned. The next stacked bar above the bottom bar shows the result when the second-oldest vintage was also decommissioned, and so forth, up to the top bar, which represents the case of full decommissioning. The sum of the stacked bars represents the shortfall of cumulative electricity production over the period of 2010 to 2020. The components show how the shortfall is compensated by alternative technologies, including demand reduction.