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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    5 days ago

    Battery storage plants and power plants do not serve the same purpose. One is to generate electricity, the other is used to buffer and stabilize the net. They have to be used together.

    And yet, they closed one down.

    Solar and wind are cheaper to build/run and also way more decentralized than a nuclear plant.

    As long as you don’t mind occasionally not having power during winter nights. You need an insane overcapacity in both prodiction and storage if you want to get rid of all baseload generation. It’ll take decades to build, we don’t have that yet. Shutting down plants now is very premature.

    Plus a nuclear power plant takes 1-2 decades to complete and should therefore be seen as a long term benefit, it’s not a solution for the short term electricity problems Europe is facing.

    This plant was literally already there. Not shutting it down took zero construction years.

    I’m also not saying “don’t build solar”, I’m saying "shut down browncoal rooftop mining, keep nuclear open.