A little ironic

[Simpletruther]

Wind farm in Germany being demolished to make room for coal mine

A wind farm in Germany is being demolished to make room for a coal mine expansion. German energy giant RWE is tearing down wind turbines to expand a neighboring coal mine in an effort to deal with the country's energy crisis. The area of the wind farm near the small town of Lützerath will be...

www.theblaze.com

Tearing down a wind farm in Germany to make room for a coal mine.

Good idea?

 

[NatMorton]

Depends on whether you believe energy dependence on Russia is sound energy policy.

 

[BlueTex]

“RWE and its partner City of Bedburg inaugurated a windfarm of 28.5MW just across Garzweiler Mine and in eyeshot of Keyenberg Windfarm on formerly mined land. That was last Wednesday. It adds to a neighbouring RWE/Bedburg windfarm with 21 turbines.

“More RWE wind farms and solar farms are being built or planned in that very area at present. By 2030, RWE will have added at least 500MW of renewables capacity in the Rhenish lignite mining district only. In this way, the current and the future projects will more than compensate [for] the dismantled capacity of Keyenberg Windfarm.”

'We'll more than compensate': RWE defends green credentials in 'scrap wind for coal mine' row | Recharge

Utility giant faces storm of criticism over decommissioning to make way for expanded German lignite facility, but points to raft of extra green capacity in same

www.rechargenews.com

 

[OrphanSlug]

Pretending to be green then relying on Russia for the rest was predictably not very good energy policy, very kin to flying around on private jets so speak about climate change.

Whatever the plans are for Germany, or this area of Germany, they are reactionary at best. Which makes this even more sad to see defended.

 

[Bok Tuklo]

The subsidies ran out.

 

[BlueTex]

By bringing forward the coal phase-out by eight years, North Rhine-Westphalia and RWE are once again taking a bold step forward and making an important contribution to achieving Germany's climate protection targets. In order to ensure security of supply during a short period of time after 2030, the German federal government can decide by 2026 at the latest whether the last lignite-fired power plants will be placed on security standby until the end of 2033. These include a 600-megawatt unit and the three modern lignite-fired power plants with optimised plant engineering, which have a total capacity of around 3,600 megawatts (MW). Should they be needed, no more changes are required to the opencast mine planning process. In addition, the recultivation that will start in 2030 will also continue unchanged.

Agreement on coal phase-out 2030 and strengthening security of supply in the energy crisis

RWE is ready to end lignite-based electricity generation in 2030. The earlier coal phase-out contributes significantly to achieving German climate protection goals.

www.rwe.com

 

[aociswundumho]

Pretending to be green then relying on Russia for the rest was predictably not very good energy policy, very kin to flying around on private jets so speak about climate change.

Whether it's good policy or not depends of their true goals. The private jets provide some evidence as to what those goals are not.

Whatever the plans are for Germany, or this area of Germany, they are reactionary at best. Which makes this even more sad to see defended.

 

[PoS]

The subsidies ran out.

Yup, green energy without subsidies is dead in the water.

 

[Lord Tammerlain]

Entire towns in Germany are relocated to allow for coal mining

 

[vanceen]

They should re-start their nuclear plants.

 

[The flaming lib]

Greta is cool wit dat.