Economics and Climate Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) has a problem. He wants to promise people safe electricity in times of war – but still wants to shut down one nuclear power plant (NPP) after the other because the green ideology demands it.
So that he can go through with his nuclear power plant plan, he throws all climate protection goals overboard. And now, in an emergency, we want to burn oil on the North Sea so we don’t get a blackout.
► The fact is: Three oil power plant ships (“power barges”) on the North Sea coast could soon replace the electricity that the Lingen nuclear reactor (Lower Saxony) generated until it was shut down at the end of 2022.
Ironically, Habeck’s environmental pioneer, State Secretary Patrick Graichen, has now officially confirmed that the “Belgian company Exmar” had offered the federal government the ships to “each install up to 450 megawatts of electrical power based on oil in Germany.”
The response from Habeck’s State Secretary Patrick Graichen (59) to a CDU request about the power plant ships
The Ministry of the Environment also said: “In addition, the future use of power plant ships can also be a lower-risk alternative that can be considered if necessary.”
However, negotiations with the Belgian company have not yet started. The responsible state government in Lower Saxony only knows that the three ships (each with an output of 450 megawatts) “have the CO2 emissions of a medium-sized coal-fired power plant”. And THAT in the middle of the largely nature-protected area of the North Sea coast!
Experts are appalled: “Habeck is relying on scumbags in the short term, from which he wants to get out in the long term – just to maintain the green fetish of phasing out nuclear power,” criticizes economics professor Jan Schnellenbach (49, BTU Cottbus).
CSU regional group leader Alexander Dobrindt (52) to BILD: “In a new round of Habeck’s blackout bingo, Habeck prefers to burn oil on the North Sea instead of continuing to use nuclear energy. This oil ship maneuver exposes Habeck’s fairy tale of sufficient power in northern Germany.”
Union faction vice and energy expert Jens Spahn (42, CDU) to BILD: “The traffic light prefers to burn the climate killers coal and heavy oil instead of leaving all CO2-neutral nuclear power plants on the grid. Renting floating oil-fired power plants in order to take the Emsland power plant off the grid is climate policy madness. And with blackouts looming, it is irresponsible.”
The Turkish Power Plant Ship “Fatmagul Sultan”
Dirt spin alarm
► Power plant ships are around 140 meters long, equipped with combustion chambers that generate electricity in turbines – around 450 megawatts per ship (for comparison: the Lingen nuclear power plant creates around 1300 MW).
► Power plant ships (powered by oil or gas) are mostly used in developing countries that cannot afford to build their own plants. But the city of New York is also partly supplied with “power barges”.
► Large amounts of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide are released from the chimneys (approx. 35 m) of the power plants – climate killer no. 1.
► Oil power station ships are refueled by tankers on the sea side. In order to feed in electricity, they need a grid connection on land.
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10/10/2022
Next energy madness
How awesome is that?
Germany pays South Africa millions to get off coal power – but gets more and more coal from there itself!
Last week, Development Minister Svenja Schulze (54, SPD) released a further 320 million euros for South Africa. Condition: burn less coal.
At the same time, coal imports from South Africa are increasing: in 2021, Germany imported more than 1 million tons from there. In 2022 it will be even more to offset the loss of Russian coal (50% of imports). Among other things, the plant in Mehrum (Lower Saxony), which has been restarted, is also running with coal from South Africa, as well as 2 plants in Saarland from November.