Posted on 10/26/2022 1:22:17 PM PDT by Red Badger
A wind farm is being dismantled in western Germany to make way for an expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in a “paradoxical” situation highlighting the current prioritization of energy security over clean energy in Europe’s biggest economy.
The dismantling of at least one wind turbine at the wind farm close to the German coal mine Garzweiler, operated by energy giant RWE, has already started. RWE says that lignite, or brown coal, has been mined from the Garzweiler coalfields for over 100 years.
RWE also said at the end of September that three of its lignite-fired coal units that were previously on standby would return to the electricity market on schedule in October.
“The three lignite units each have a capacity of 300 megawatts (MW). With their deployment, they contribute to strengthening the security of supply in Germany during the energy crisis and to saving natural gas in electricity generation,” RWE said last month.
Now the company is expanding the lignite mine at Garzweiler after a court in Münster in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia ruled in favor of the energy group in a land dispute in March this year to expand the lignite mine.
Commenting on the dismantling of wind turbines to make way for expanding a coal mine, Guido Steffen, a spokesperson for RWE, told the Guardian, “We realise this comes across as paradoxical.”
“But that is as matters stand,” Steffen added.
Earlier this week, the ministry for economic and energy affairs of the state of North-Rhine Westphalia urged RWE to abandon the plan to dismantle the wind farm.
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Dirty lignite - one step above peat...
St. Greta of Thuneburg. On your knees infidel unbelievers.
Not Babylon Bee!!!
This will kill Greta.
Scoldilox saddened
Won’t be the last.
irony?
LOL, I have a feeling Greta is not pleased.....
“Groota Von Thundermug, pick up the white courtesy phone.”
Bookmark
Hmmm.. Some sanity in a world gone mad.?
lmao... man i’d like to be a fly on the wall in some of those hard core save the planet groups!! I imagine they are coming unglued over this!!
Poor little Greta will get her pigtails in a knoy and foam at the mouth while she screams “ how dare you”.
Results of a policy based on ideology rather than reality. Under stress it becomes incoherent and fails.
Devolution. Who knew that DEVO would turn out be prophets.
“How dare you!”
Good start.
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