by David Greenberg at The Daily Financial Trends
In Germany, an energy company is dismantling a wind farm in order to expand an open-pit lignite coal mine, in but just one example of the government’s transition from a green energy philosophy emphasizing clean renewable energy and the environment, to a more pragmatic energy policy emphasizing energy security, as the county faces a looing energy crisis this winter.
The energy giant RWE has already begun the dismantling of the wind energy farm near the German coal mine Garzweiler. RWE notes that lignite, also known as brown coal, has been mined from that site for over 100 years.
RWE is looking for the additional fuel as it prepares to fire up three of its lignite-fired electricity plants this October, which had previously been placed on standby.
RWE said in a statement last month,…
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