But change is coming to the village, with the plant facing imminent closure under Germany’s energy transition policy. The power station will be decommissioned on December 31, 2021, along with two other facilities in northern Germany. Nuclear power stations have therefore not been replaced by coal, though the fossil fuel does still represent almost a quarter of the electricity mix. The gas dilemmaIn fact, the phase-out of nuclear energy has been joined by another plan, announced in 2019, to close all of Germany’s coal-fired power stations by 2038. A gas-fired power station is already in the works for the town of Leipheim, just around the corner from Gundremmingen.

Source: The Local March 05, 2021 08:15 UTC