1.4 GW power, 6 GWh capacity: Emmerthal energy cluster to exceed Grohnde NPP output, located on major power lines.

In 2021, the Grohnde nuclear power plant in Lower Saxony on the Weser River was shut down. Now, immediately next to it, the Emmerthal energy cluster is growing with three very large battery storage systems, ground-mounted photovoltaic systems, and a new substation for several 380-kilovolt high-voltage lines.

  • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    10 days ago

    No, this was a rational move based on economic factors

    The economic factors being the ones they specifically created to only apply to nuclear. Nobody is mandating lignite plants to store their CO2 till the end of time.

    actually caring about reactor safty of half a century old and outdated designs.

    Right, except they also shut down all the ones that aren’t super old, outdated and unsafe.

    I am not even against running existing nuclear power plants that are somewhat recently build and relatively safe.

    But they’re not doing that. They shut them all down, and kept lignite running, constantly postponing their shutdown.

    But building new ones makes absolutely no economic sense and is actively bad for the climate since much better alternatives exist.

    Sure, that’s fine. But it’s plainly stupid to shut down a good, safe and working NPP, and keep a lignite plant going, when you could have done the reverse. That’s my entire point.

    • poVoq@slrpnk.netMEnglish
      11·
      10 days ago

      Right, except they also shut down all the ones that aren’t super old, outdated and unsafe.

      Two of them, which just barely didn’t make the minimal threshold of not having been operated already beyond their original intended lifespan. They were just as unsafe and outdated as the others.