{"id":325506,"date":"2024-05-02T13:06:56","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T11:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=325506"},"modified":"2024-05-02T13:07:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T11:07:00","slug":"its-coal-to-the-rescue-as-wind-and-solar-fail-to-keep-german-lights-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=325506","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s coal to the rescue as wind and solar fail to keep German lights on"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Craig Rucker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Germany they call it the \u201cEnergiewende,\u201d meaning energy transition, and it doesn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Germans have been forced to come to grips with sober energy reality after binging on more than half a trillion Euros<\/a> of so-called \u201calternative\u201d energy, such as wind turbines and solar panels.  This dramatically increased the price of electricity<\/a><\/strong> and created a serious risk of blackouts<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Germany actually just announced plans to reactivate coal plants to provide reserve power and lower the risk of blackouts during the coming winter and years to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bloomberg<\/em><\/a> reports that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Germany\u2019s coal phase-out plans face a potential setback after the energy regulator predicted the country will need a lot more fossil-fuel power plants on standby to help keep the lights on in the coming years.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The need for so-called reserve capacity to cover shortfalls in wind and solar generation during the 2026\/27 winter period is set to reach 9.2 gigawatts, double the amount put aside for the last heating season, the regulator<\/a> said Tuesday. That\u2019s even more than the 8.3 gigawatts of mainly coal-fired backup deployed in 2022, when Russia curbed pipelined natural gas supplies to Europe.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The solution the German government is pursuing is no solution at all \u2014 offsets!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reuters<\/em><\/a> reports that German  \u201ccoal-fired power plans will be reactivated and the government will make proposals by summer next year on how to offset increased carbon dioxide these plants will generate this winter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Germany will purchase some kind of offset certificates that will have no meaningful impact on the fact that German coal plants burn brown lignite, which is the dirtiest and least efficient variety of coal.  It is far inferior to the cleaner-burning hard black anthracite mined in America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The German energy economy has fallen victim to conflicting Green ideologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Germany invested a fortune in wind and solar which are unable to meet its energy needs, it simultaneously shut down clean, safe, functioning nuclear plants<\/a> that were already paid for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Germany provides a powerful energy lesson in what not to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will America learn in time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In Germany they call it the \u201cEnergiewende,\u201d meaning energy transition, and it doesn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n

Germans have been forced to come to grips with sober energy reality after binging on more than half a trillion Euros of so-called \u201calternative\u201d energy, such as wind turbines and solar panels. This dramatically increased the price of electricity and created a serious risk of blackouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":325508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691819332,691818119,691818618,691818051,691828442],"class_list":["post-325506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-coal-fired-power","tag-energiewende","tag-energy-transition","tag-germany","tag-serious-risk-of-blackouts","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/0Broken-solar-scaled-1.jpg?fit=2560%2C1588&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1mG6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":341122,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=341122","url_meta":{"origin":325506,"position":0},"title":"Study Quantifies Germany\u2019s Disastrous Switch Away From Nuclear Power","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"08\/30\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"At the dawn of the millennium, Germany launched an ambitious plan to transition to renewable energy. \u201cDie Energiewende\u201d initiated a massive expansion of solar and wind power, resulting in a commendable 25 percent reduction in carbon emissions by 2022 compared to 2002.\u00a0\u00a0","rel":"","context":"In \"Die Energiewende\"","block_context":{"text":"Die Energiewende","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=die-energiewende"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0photo-of-a-village-with-windmills-in-the-background.webp?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0photo-of-a-village-with-windmills-in-the-background.webp?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0photo-of-a-village-with-windmills-in-the-background.webp?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0photo-of-a-village-with-windmills-in-the-background.webp?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0photo-of-a-village-with-windmills-in-the-background.webp?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":341570,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=341570","url_meta":{"origin":325506,"position":1},"title":"Renewable Fiasco: If Germany just kept nuclear power, it could have saved $600b and cut emissions by 73%","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"09\/05\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Germany already had nuclear power in 2002, if they just kept it and didn\u2019t build all the wind and solar plants, they wouldn\u2019t have had to spend 697 Billion Euro on subsidies, and would have cut their emissions by 73% more. 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