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Offline TimG

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Re: GG Comments on Religion
« Reply #45 on: November 15, 2017, 05:30:11 pm »
In addition, the government has moved eight lignite coal-power plants into what’s called a “cold capacity reserve”.
Context is everything. 2.7GW is < 2% of Germany's capacity. It has >55GW of active coal capacity. Moth balling a few old plants is hardly a paradigm shift. More importantly, the point you are missing is they can't get rid of them because without that reserve they put their system at risk. The fact that renewables require this kind of excess capacity is why they are so bloody expensive (the media never reports the true cost of renewables including the cos of building and maintaining the 'cold capacity reserve').