Germany is bringing back some of its coal power plants online ahead of the winter season amid concerns about a potential shortage of natural gas supplies. Germany has cracked down on its coal power plants as part of transitioning out from fossil fuel energy. However, as the Russia-Ukraine war dented gas supplies from Moscow and […]

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  • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.caEnglish
    102·
    9 months ago

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

    • Chup@feddit.deEnglish
      9·
      9 months 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.

    • Kalash@feddit.ch
      52·
      9 months 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.