Germany’s first coal-fired standby power plant will be restarted soon. We are talking about Merum CHP (Kraftwerk Mehrum) in Lower Saxony Hohenhameln, located between Hannover and Braunschweig. This was reported on Monday, August 1, by the dpa agency, citing information received from the Federal Network Agency in Bonn.
As of July 14, coal and oil-fired power plants of the so-called back-up power system can again come into operation in Germany. The decision to restart them was made to save natural gas due to the threat of an energy crisis and is temporary.
According to the Federal Grid Agency, Merum is so far the only coal-fired cogeneration plant registered for restart. In June, 11.2% of Germany’s electricity was generated from natural gas.
A German government decree allows the sale of electricity from fossil fuel-fired standby power plants until the end of April 2023. Its temporary restart is in the economic interest of power plant operators, as the wholesale prices of electricity are currently high. At the same time, there is a lot of coal on the world market.
Source: DW
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