CGX car nut:
...  Additionally, as Germany moves away from nuclear it is relying more on coal-fired generation facilities fueled with brown coal from eastern Germany near Poland.  ...

That’s not true.

While the total number of energy by brown coal is quite stable the total number of energy produced by wind is strongly increasing. Energy by hard coal and by nuclear power is decreasing (absolute and relative). The absolute numbers of energy are increasing, so the relative part of coal is decreasing. But yes it is still important

(Costs is another story)