Facing potential power shortages this winter, Germany is reactivating several coal-fired units while maintaining its long-term climate goals.
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Several coal-fired blocks operated by RWE and LEAG at their Niederaußem, Neurath, and Jaenschwalde power plants will be temporarily reactivated until March 2024 as a precautionary measure to safeguard electricity supply in the coming winter, the ministry Those coal units were already operational during the 2022/2023 winter, when Germany was shocked into severely reduced gas supply with the end of Russian pipeline deliveries.
After March 31, 2024, the German economy ministry will evaluate how much additional greenhouse gas emissions the reactivated plants would have emitted. We will save the information entered above in our website. Your comment will then await moderation from one of our team. If approved, your data will then be publically viewable on this article. Please confirm you understand and are happy with this and ourby ticking this box. You can withdraw your consent, or ask us to give you a copy of the information we have stored, at any time byBy signing up to our newsletter, you agree for your email address to be shared with our third party mail providers.
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