German energy giant RWE has begun dismantling a wind farm to make way for a further expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in the Western region of North Rhine Westphalia.

German energy giant RWE has begun dismantling a wind farm to make way for a further expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in the western region of North Rhine Westphalia.

I thought renewables were cheaper than coal. How is this possible?

  • hh93@lemm.ee
    251·
    1 year ago

    They don’t have more power - the government was just stupid to give them contracts this longlasting

    • Lojcs@lemm.ee
      9·
      1 year ago

      Thinking of that one us city that sold its parking rights for a century for just millions

      Also the many private-partnered public infrastructure projects built in Turkey with billing rights given to the companies that will let Erdoğans friends leech off the public for decades even if he loses political power