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leonidasrup • today at 1:23 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Building new gas power plants for backup is currently the plan the Germany is implementing for it's future renewables powered electric grid.

https://biz.liga.net/en/energy/news/germany-to-build-11-gw-i...

In mean time, it looks like coal in Germany will used for longer.

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/german-regulator-says-n...


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fpoling • today at 1:51 PM

Germany has not learned anything from the war in Ukraine and still think that dependence on gas imports from other countries is fine even for backup.