After warning the heads of three energy companies, the French government has announced that it will restart the coal-fired power plant this winter.
The country’s government is set to restart a coal-fired power station in northeastern France this winter to better combat energy insecurity caused by the ongoing war with Russia.
The announcement by the heads of the three major energy companies in France that Saint-Avold will be back online shortly after, warned that authorities must “immediately” reduce energy consumption of the general public so that they can be more efficient.
Authorities said the coal-fired power plant will return to service “as a precautionary measure due to the situation in Ukraine”, according to RTL.
Le Figaro Meanwhile, officials said they would include the so-called “environmental compensation” as part of the plant’s reopening, and will issue a post saying the government is demanding the plant’s reopening in an environmentally neutral manner.
As a result, the facility operator will replant as part of the reopening to meet this environmental need.
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The announcement that authorities would reopen the plant came shortly after the heads of France’s three major energy companies Engie, EDF and TotalEnergies warned that the public should immediately start conserving energy to ensure the country’s energy situation.
“The actions to be taken this summer will allow us to better prepare for the coming winter and, in particular, protect our gas reserves,” the power kings said. “Therefore, we call for awareness and collective and individual action so that each of us – every consumer, every company – can change their behavior and immediately limit their consumption of energy, electricity, gas and other petroleum products.”
“The effort must be immediate, concerted and massive,” they continued, emphasizing that “every step” toward this goal “makes a difference”.
Environmentally-obsessed Germany has also announced that it will increase its own coal-burning capacity to better deal with the ongoing energy crisis, and the country’s economic and climate czar Robert Habeck said steps need to be taken to conserve gas.
“To reduce gas consumption, it is necessary to use less gas to generate electricity. Instead, it will have to use more coal-fired power plants,” he said before, despite the “bitter” admission that his green-minded government has had to rely on fuels with such high emission levels.
But the official is adamant that Germany’s last three nuclear power plants, of which three are scheduled to shut down by the end of the year, will not be used to solve power supply problems, despite calls from all sides for Germany to keep them. online.
The situation is so dire that even the climate-mad EU officials are now urging Germany to continue using the power plants.
“Three nuclear power plants are currently operating in Germany, accounting for 25% of electricity consumption,” said Thierry Breton, head of the domestic market.
As stated in the coalition agreements, we can say to ourselves that we will continue for another year or two to solve this problem, instead of making the decision to cut it at the end of the year.”
Source: Breitbart
