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Comment by adrianN

5 hours ago

Gas turbines can also run on synthetic methane or hydrogen, which is nice.

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...

  • 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.