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TenneT foresees a power shortage in 2030. The nature & environment department wants to close all coal-fired power plants by 2025. These two completely incompatible messages illustrate a 21st-century retreat into their own bubble of like-minded people, as we saw 100 years ago with socialism, liberalism, Catholicism, and Protestantism. This is especially detrimental to energy and sustainability because the (im)possibilities of natural sciences are leading in those departments and not all sorts of human convictions and ideals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In a weekly column, alternately written by Eveline van Zeeland, Derek Jan Fikkers, Eug\u00e8ne Franken, JP Kroeger, Katleen Gabriels, Bernd Maier-Leppla, Willemijn Brouwer and Colinda de Beer,\u00a0Innovation Origins tries to find out what the future will look like. These columnists, sometimes supplemented by guest bloggers such as Maarten van Andel<\/strong>, all work in their own way to find solutions to the problems of our time. You can find previous\u00a0instalments here<\/a>.<\/p><\/div><\/details>\n\n\n\n

As a grid operator, TenneT has known for a long time that we cannot phase out stable power producers (coal and nuclear power stations), build up unstable power producers (wind and solar), and also very quickly create more power demand with impunity (electric cars and heat pumps). The nature & environment department should know this, in constructive dialogue with TenneT. After eight years of misplaced idealism, the governing party Die Gr\u00fcnen in Germany must therefore agree to an extended operating life of nuclear power plants and increased lignite extraction under the sacrificed village of L\u00fctzerath.<\/p>\n\n\n

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How Germany\u2019s brown coal village of L\u00fctzerath and its locals are going down fighting – Innovation Origins<\/div>
Hundreds of activists protested against the demolition of this German village for the extraction of lignite.<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

The current power shortages in France, Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands are not the result of the war in Ukraine. After eight years of increasing short-sightedness and polarization since the Russian invasion of Crimea, we have created it ourselves. Now, with Putin as an evil genius, the recent ban on nuclear power plants and fossil investments is off the table, but we really caused our so-called energy crisis ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article was previously posted in Duurzaamheid<\/a> (in Dutch) on January 15, 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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