Bloomberg: Germany Revives Coal as Energy Security Trumps Climate Goals
Germany is set to boost its reliance on coal as it battles an unprecedented energy crisis — even at the expense of its ambitious climate goals.
Europe’s largest economy is burning the fossil fuel for electricity at the fastest pace in at least six years, data compiled by Bloomberg show. It’s also poised to be one of the few nations to increase coal imports next year.
On Thursday, utility Uniper SE said it would extend commercial operations of two of its coal-fired plants in Germany until March 2024 at the latest, in an effort to conserve natural gas in the coming winters.
Across the globe, highly polluting — and relatively cheap — coal is making a comeback as countries seek to prevent soaring energy costs from triggering an economic meltdown. In Europe, the crisis is acute, after Russia curbed gas supplies in the fallout of its war in Ukraine. Germany is now trying to balance the short-term priority of bolstering energy security with the longer-term goal of net-zero emissions by 2045.
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Update: Energy crisis fuels coal comeback in Germany (Euronews/Reuters)
WNU Editor: On the one hand we hear German officials praising German efforts to cut gas production .... Germany Has Dramatically Slashed Its Dependence On Russian Gas (OilPrice.com), on the other hand we hear the opposite from other officials .... German regulator: gas consumption up, savings target missed (Reuters). But in this discussion is the uncomfortable truth that coal is making a comeback, and it is making a mockery of Germany's vaunted green energy efforts.
One more note. According to German media reports Germany is consuming almost 1% of its natural gas stockpile per-day. That means by the end of March Germany will be out of natural gas, and when it comes to future supplies the country be completely dependent for LNG and what they can get from Norway.
12 comments:
You mean the Europeans aren't going to cooperate with the Green Suicide and just quietly freeze to death?
No, russ
not taking a knee to Russia is more important. That is, there is a moral and ethical issue that is priority at the moment, despite your silly sneers
Hurray oh shit
Greta will be pissed
Easy to freeze, when you are the one not having to do it. Or watching your kids or grandparents freeze.
EU action pattern: Take out gun. Shoot self in foot.
Mars Base 1 has sanctioned oxygen from Mars Base 2. Mars base 1 has no oxygen scrubbers of their own, but it is more important to not take a knee to the odious Mars Base 2.
getting through the winter, staying alive, more important at the moment, and hurting Russia by not buying from them is smart move. Later, when Russia fails, there is time to attend to climate matters. So your sneers are ill placed.
Russian coal exporters having a good year
"Later, when Russia fails, there is time to attend to climate matters. So your sneers are ill placed."
CO2 targets have always been a bunch of horse pucky. When you leave out China and India, you will overshoot your point of no return CO2 levels (according to liberals). We have passed the point of no return several times. India and China are not scaling back. that right there shows the liberal agenda is a lie.
a lie? no. It is a fact that has not managed to make the impact it should make, and as storms increase, and climate refugees flee to other nations, and costs rise and insurance skyrockets, then perhaps there might be an agenda that is acted upon
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Germany and Europe, et al have been licking the Russian boot for the last 15 years. Intertangling their economies with Russia and relying on them for winter heat after foolishly banning their own.
"Bending a knee to Russia" when the Euro Marxists decided then to gut their own energy sources. Then giggle and smirk when told of their own follies. (Please)
Just soft hubris as usual.
MOAR,
SNEERZ,
R,
What's the backup plan when Russia doesn't fail. Continue suffering indefinitely, I guess.
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