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Wind and solar power do not provide dispatchable power and they therefore do not replace conventional power plants.

Germany isn't keeping their coal-fired power plants and they're not building new gas-fired power plants despite the energy transition but because of it.

You're spreading conspiracy theories when you claim Katherina Reiche is a fossil fuel puppet. She is doing what has always been the plan for the energy transition: Building gas-fired power plants.

That plan is even in the DENA study for the energy transition:

https://www.dena.de/fileadmin/dena/Dokumente/Pdf/9262_dena-L... (p. 29)

And before you claim DENA is some sort of fossil fuel lobby organization, they're not. DENA belongs to the German state and was founded in 2000 by SPD and Greens:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Energie-Agentur

parent cbmuser 22 days ago

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