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

submitted 1 year ago by lntl@lemmy.ml to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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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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[-] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You fell for misinformation.

This is a small site. The owner of the wind turbines had to phase them out due to them being at the end of their lifespan. As there is coal under them. A deal was stipulated a VERY long time ago where when the wind turbines would have had to be removed, an expansion of a coal mine would be built there at the agreement that it will be dismantled by 2030. We are talking about "multiple years" time ago, before the 2030 deadline.

[-] bigkix@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I commented more on general production of energy in Germany... They did in fact recently shut down nuclear plants and upped coal energy production.

[-] Ooops@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No, they didn't and you are still parroting lies.

The actual reality of replacing nuclear and reducing coal with renewables.

Also the historic low of fossil fuels after nuclear shutdown (those old reactors not able to react well to changes in supply/demand actually got already existing renewables shut down at times and indirectly increased fossil fuel use slightly...)