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Germany to Bring Back Coal-Fired Power Plants (www.ntd.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fucking great. From the summary let's hope they only use it if they actually run out of NG.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

A coal plant takes weeks to start up, so I assume those reactivated plants from the emergency reserve will have to run the whole winter duration at least at low power. So in case of a very cold winter and gas shortage, the emergency plants can be turned up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They are already in use and currently producing 2x the amount of energy as our gas plants. This is about starting up additional ones for winter.