If Only Someone Had Warned Them: Germany Prepares Coal Plants Amid Strained Energy Supply

townhall.com ^ | 11/12/2026 | Amy Curtis

[rktman]

Winter is coming, and in Germany, officials are scrambling to prepare coal plants for emergency operations as gas supplies and storage levels are low. Germany has waged war on coal plants for years in pursuit of its green agenda, relying instead on gas imported from Russia and elsewhere. The nation wants to be "climate neutral" by 2045 in accordance with the Paris Agreement. Coal plants were phased out, as were nuclear plants, with the last one closing in 2023.

On November 2, Clean Energy Wire reported that the nation missed winter gas storage targets to have them at least 70 percent full at the beginning of November. At the time, Germany's economy ministry said the low storage did not threaten gas supply security for the winter.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: windmills

[rktman]

How do you say "DOH?" in churman? IIRC didn't all this green crap start under the mustachiode addie hitler?

[griswold3]

I said when They closed coal fired plants in Ohio without sufficient excess from alternative sources and I said prices were going to increase. **crickets**
Too soon to say toljaso?

[Vision]

Hahahahahahahaha

[coloradan]

If only someone had warned them about killing coal, and if only someone had warned them about importing Islamic immigrants.

If only.

[Leaning Right]

> Germany Prepares Coal Plants <

Have the Germans cleared this with Greta Thunberg and Al Gore? Because I believe they have veto power over this sort of thing.

[AppyPappy]

When they shut down the plant in our county, they punched the boilers to prevent their future use.

[caver]

And to think that the Germans were going to rule the world with green energy.

[quantim]

Maybe they could be the first country to find a use for their windmill blades not in use. /s

[Harpotoo]

Coal? They never heard of Oil, Hydro, Nuke and geothermal?

[Abathar]

They did the same thing right up the street from me.

Perfectly good coal powered plant, they built a huge NG plant on the same property a few thousand feet from the original coal plant, leaving the rail yards, ash pits, coal storage pits and structures completely whole and untouched.

Then instead of mothballing them, they cut the boilers out and spent a year and God knows how much money to tear it all down with the huge smoke stacks.