According to German economics minister Robert Habeck, the two southern German nuclear power plants Isar 2 and Neckarwestheim 2 should continue to operate after the end of the year. This means that the German nuclear phase-out has been officially postponed at the end of the year.
“From today”, he assumes that the “reserve” will be drawn and that the nuclear power plants Isar 2 and Neckarwestheim will be online by mid-April 2023, German Economy Minister Robert Habeck said in Berlin on Tuesday evening.
For technical reasons, the final decision for Isar 2 has to be made in December, for Neckarwestheim this can also be done at the beginning of the year. The nuclear power plants must be operational until mid-April 2023 at the latest.
“Concern” about reserve in France
The tense situation, mainly due to the lack of French nuclear energy, would make it necessary to use it as a reserve. Above all, the supply situation in France is “watched with concern”. More than half of France’s nuclear power stations are currently not connected to the grid, causing a shortage of electricity, which Germany partly compensates with electricity from gas-fired power stations. France is heading for the two worst-case scenarios in the winter stress test, it said.
Habeck only announced the plan for a possible continuation of the operation (reserve operation) of the two nuclear power plants at the beginning of September. The third active nuclear power plant in Lower Saxony (Emsland) may not be part of this emergency reserve and must be shut down before the end of the year.
Source: Krone
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