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2/27/13, "Germany to Add Most Coal-Fired Plants in Two Decades, IWR Says," Bloomberg, Stefan Nocola
"Germany
will this year start up more coal-fired power stations than at any time
in the past 20 years as the country advances a plan to exit nuclear
energy by 2022.
New coal plants with about 5,300 megawatts of
capacity will start generating power this year, the Muenster-based IWR
renewable energy institute said in an e-mailed statement today, citing
data from the German regulator. About 1,000 megawatts of coal-fired
capacity are expected to come offline, it said.
Chancellor Angela Merkel, who shut Germany’s oldest atomic reactors two years ago in response to the Fukushima disaster in Japan,
is seeking to replace the remaining nuclear plants with renewable
generators and efficient fossil-fired stations.
Greenhouse gas emissions
in Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, rose 1.6 percent last year as
more coal was burned to generate power, the Environment Ministry said two days ago.
“The
growth in renewables and the decline in power consumption have already
fully bridged the gap opened by the shutdowns of the eight nuclear
reactors in 2011,” Norbert Allnoch, head of the IWR, said in today’s
statement." via Tom Nelson
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