No-Nuclear Germany Turns To Coal To Meet Winter Demand
A country on the forefront of the green transition will put several mothballed coal-fired power plants back online ahead of the upcoming winter, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday
Germany, which has spent hundreds of billions of dollars to enact the green energy transition, will reactivate several coal-fired units in order to meet peak demand and keep the lights on this winter, Bloomberg reported.
The country has experienced elevated and inconsistent energy prices since Russia invaded Ukraine, impacting both German customers and companies.
The German government opted to go ahead with its plans to phase out its last nuclear reactors in April, and the war in Ukraine has resulted in a diminished flow of relatively inexpensive natural gas from Russia, according to Bloomberg.
German officials have cited safety concerns and a desire to focus on developing green energy as their rationale for shuttering the remaining reactors.
The country needed to rely on coal last winter once the flow of Russian gas had slowed, and supply is likely to be even tighter this winter now that the nuclear reactors are out of the picture, Bloomberg reported.
The energy crisis and inconsistencies in the power market have contributed to the decisions of many companies to scale down their operations in Germany and look for more stable, affordable business environments in North America and Asia, according to Politico.
In June, German Economy and Energy Minister Robert Habeck warned that a future energy shortage could produce conditions in which “there is no secure scenario for how things will turn out” for the German economy.
Habeck issued his warning ahead of the December 2024 expiration of a natural gas deal between Russia and Ukraine, which allows for Russian gas to flow into Western Europe.
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Wisenox
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I don’t remember where I saw it, but apparently the largest EV charging station in California uses diesel to produce energy.
Moving large populations to electric will have disastrous effects on fossil fuels. In fact, they will have to increase their use of fossil fuels to create the amount of electricity required to provide the fake value in their programmable enslavement money.
The impact from EV trucking, on a nationwide scale, alone will require notable increases in the use of fossil fuels. There aren’t enough waterways to make it happen, and if they mess with those too much, they’ll negatively affect the ecosystems along the waterways that require them for survival. Solar and wind are a joke, and large mirror arrays literally fry birds in mid-flight.
It is apparent that the push to electric has a hidden agenda. The infrastructure isn’t there, there are no adequate solutions for where the new electricity will come from, people in evacuation zones will suffer from power outages and dead vehicles littering the evac route, increased use of fossil fuels, and the list goes on…yet, they still push it. Pretty clear that there must be another reason (enslavement).
It should be noted that “green”, in symbolism, means profitable. Not for you though. Green agenda, get it? Green comes from the proto-indo-european root word ‘greh”, which means to grow green and the color Grey. This is why ‘grey’ symbolizes nobility.
So, if we use their own symbolism, “Green Agenda”, actually means “Nobility’s Agenda” (elites), and that the whole agenda is nothing more than Agenda 2030 (your enslavement).
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Anapat
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The so called green ecologic party in Germany has always been a faithful soldier fighting for the coal lobby. First in the eighties they fought nuclear power. Today they are in power and applaused the destruction of the Nordstream pipelines.
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Dale Horst
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The brilliant gene pool of the Germans has been wiped out by senseless wars.
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