Germany ending coal

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Germany’s Incoming Govt Agrees To Phase Out Coal Eight Years Ahead of Schedule

By Tsvetana Paraskova - Oct 15, 2021, 1:30 PM CDT

The coalition that will form the government to succeed Germany’s Angela Merkel has agreed to phase out coal by 2030, eight years than currently planned, .....

On Friday, the leaders of the three parties .....

The coal exit for Germany could be more difficult than in other European economies, because the country plans to phase out nuclear power generation by the end of 2022.

By Tsvetana Paraskova for Oilprice.com

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Eliminating ~60% of their ENTIRE electrical grid....

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They literally cannot build NG pipelines from Russia that quickly to replace coal/nuclear, let alone enough wind turbines, and gargantuan pumped hydro storage or batteries etc that quickly.

Yea yea, Germany officially only uses 50% Coal/Uranium... in reality it exports another 10% based on coal. 

Edited October 15, 2021 by footeab@yahoo.com

[Tomasz + 1,608]

Putin recently summed up Merkel's policy, saying that he explained to her back in 2010 that if the Germans did not like coal, oil, nuclear and in the future also natural gas, they would probably have to burn some wood.

However, Europe does not also have forests any more, so they would have to look for raw materials.

The easiest way is in the Siberian taiga.

[markslawson + 1,058]

1 hour ago, footeab@yahoo.com said:

The coalition that will form the government to succeed Germany’s Angela Merkel has agreed to phase out coal by 2030, eight years than currently planned, ....

Like other posters I don't believe its possible. The bulk of Germany's coal generated power comes from brown coal plants, incidentally, and the output of those cannot be varied easily. When the wind and PV panels are producing heaps, they dump the excess power on the neighbours (Poland, Serbia..) and claim that the domestic German grid is using the extra renewable power, while the coal power is being exported. The electrons don't know about this of course, but its a convenient fiction. If Germany goes further down this path by insisting on shutting down some of the brown coal plants before gas substitutes have been built they will basically be outsourcing their power production to Poland (plenty of coal plants) and France (still mainly nuclear).. now those countries will be concerned about their own grids first, so if there's a crisis, Germany could suddenly find itself without power. 

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The Coalition is not in place. I would not exclude an SPD CDU Government if there is no Government till mid November.