cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/52096709
Germany’s coal phase-out is on track to happen through market forces well before the legal 2038 deadline, regardless of current energy market turbulence, says Hauke Hermann, a researcher at the Institute of Applied Ecology (Öko-Institut). Carbon price trends make an exit as early as 2031 or 2032 likely, Hermann told Clean Energy Wire. Refiring old coal plants in response to the Iran war’s energy market shock to cut power costs would distort investment signals and is unlikely to happen in practice, he added.
Soaring energy prices have triggered calls for slowing Germany’s coal exit. The country’s coal exit law, agreed in 2020, provides for the step-by-step decommissioning of coal power plants. It also stipulates that coal-fired power generation must cease by 2038 at the very latest. Germany’s western coal region aims for an earlier phase-out by 2030, but delays in building new gas-fired power plants as a backup for renewables make meeting this earlier deadline increasingly unlikely.
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Fucking hell that is slow. Germany, wtf?
Sorry, our current head of government is kind of a slug
they were quick to exit NUCLEAR power.
Not really. It took about fourty years of discussion, strife, protests, civil desobedience, and no less than five widely reported major nuclear accidents - Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and the three plants at Fukushima - to get there. And renewable energy is a child of the quest to get better energy sources, thst stsrted in mid-seventies, and started to become mature with megawatt wind power plants in the early naughties. We would not have these without the antinuclear movement. I know all that well because I studied applied physics and renewable energy in Germany since 1988.
The decades old logo of the antinuclear movement
… shows a fiery sun for a reason.
Faster than I expected, what with the CDU in power and all
I’m guessing they’ll get to 90% very soon, and that last 10% is what takes the most time
Only like a decade after they said they would. That’s pretty good still going to cause untold ecological damage but less than say openai or the invasiam of Ukraine
The invasion of Ukraine forced Europe to lower fossil fuel consumption and now Ukraine is also destroying a lot of fossil fuel infrastructure in Russia. Even the destruction of the Kakhovka dam seems to turn out rather wild ecosystem. The Baltic countries are also recreating massive wetlands on the border to Russia.
LOL we’re getting wildly expensive environmentally disastrous fracking gas from the USSA, shipped in diesel tankers.
And why? because these terrorists blew up Nordstream causing a huge environmental disater by itself.
Quit your BS
Laughs in American
Then cries
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Meanwhile China’s New Coal Power Installations Reach 18-Year High
So are their renewable installations…
That’s like saying a chain smoker is turning healthy by starting to brush their teeth, while increasing their cigarette intake…
60% of China’s power capacity at this point are renewables, and even if they’re building coal, they’re building renewables much faster… Long term, it’s clear they’re still phasing out coal… The power plants are there, but they probably won’t be running much in 10-20 years time
So what? Germany is also at slightly above 60% renewables with 80% by 2030 being a goal, and we don’t build new coal power plants!
“but someone else will do worse” is not a valid defence.
Not really a defense, just saying that they are nullifying our efforts.
But you haven’t made an effort
“Our efforts” lol, lmao even. The west - Germany and the US in particular - are not even trying.
Yes of course, decommissioning coal power plants instead of building them rapidly is bad apparently.
You are absolutely clueless on the matter. I will not engage in a conversation with someone fighting surface level stuff, bye.