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Germany begins dismantling wind farm for coal (euobserver.com)

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German energy giant RWE has begun dismantling a wind farm to make way for a further expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in the western region of North Rhine Westphalia.

I thought renewables were cheaper than coal. How is this possible?

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

Germans literally shut down all thier nuclear power in favour for coal power.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

It was meant to be replaced by renewables but our minister of economics dumped the whole solar and wind turbine industry. Additionally his party made up bullshit rules about a minimum distance for turbines to households, which was apparently 10x of the reasonable distance and which made it very hard to find spots in densely populated Germany. And to this day, the federations with a renewable energy surplus have to pay more for electricity than those who give a shit about renewables. -it is discussed to be changed now but idk

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Hard not to believe in a conspiracy there

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What conspiracy? Sounds like just savage profit maximization.

[-] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago

It'll be fine, they can just buy nuclear power from France and Sweden.

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