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The article states that a Gas power plant would only be labeled green if it emits less than 270g/kWh, replaces a previous fossil fuel plant, construction starts
by black3r 5y ago
The article states that a Gas power plant would only be labeled green if it emits less than 270g/kWh, replaces a previous fossil fuel plant, construction starts before 2030 AND plant plans to switch to low carbon gases (biogas?) by the end of 2035.
I guess the goal is to phase out coal in Germany and Poland by any means necessary..
- kergonath 5y ago> plant plans to switch to low carbon gases (biogas?) by the end of 2035. Which will of course not be enforced, besides the fact that biogas as a “green energy” has huge caveats.
- clusterfish 5y agoYou can get great g/kwh for gas plants if you don't account for all of its stray methane emissions, and the accounting for that is rather pitiful nowadays. The 2035 "low carbon gases" thing is just ridiculously unworkable and will be repealed later as unrealistic. So at best, they'll just trading ~10 years of coal power for ~5 years of coal power followed by 40+ years of fossil methane power. That's a terrible trade.