germany in eleven years that will leave a decades long energy gap that's the view of energy expert claudia canford who sees only one way to bridge the energy gap and it's not green we have new. fire power plants here in order not to have those kind of blackout germans have long been a world leaders in their enthusiasm for a new about energy and their disdain for nuclear power now they've taken the leap of faith but it's far from certain when technologies like this will be able to take over or whether in fact germany will have to resort back to the fossil fuel wage ironic seeing as the nuclear switch off was pushed by an anti emissions green lobby and it gets worse as any replacement power green or not will require billions of dollars. construction expense pushing up the cost of electricity that's not good in a country like germany with such a large industrial base energy and electricity prices in germany are pretty high compared to all competitors in europe now if they go further up then we think we lose competitive nurses that could lead to major industries relocating production out of germany bu