I think you are talking about the reduction in total electricity generation.

This (and similar stats) get tied to the "environmentalists are killing industry/civilization" arguments.

Except, since the nuclear phase out started in 2000 the electricity generation has only dropped about 70TWh. And about 50 TWh of that was exported. And it's not clear if those numbers include the 12TWh of German behind-the-meter solar, which would leave electricity use flat at a time when LED lighting was reducing demand, similar to many Western nations.

They became a net electricity importer (once again the sign of total civilizational collapse to some) and then returned to being a net exporter this year.

But even when importing they had gas and coal capacity they could have used, they just got cleaner energy cheap from other countries to meet their demand.

So why is cheaper energy than gas or coal a problem?

A real problem they have is that their current elected leader hates wind power. If you want to be angry at Germans protesting cheap, clean energy I'd start there.

This is a myth, you just need to overbuild the renewables like solar, add some storage, and then have _some_ capacity from other sources to handle the dips.

This is the baseload fallacy. It's not the case now and even less in the future as electricity use coevolves (eg more electricity users move to real time pricing, more storage, strengthened crossborder grid links, etc etc).