Последний немецкий «угольщик»?

Abstract

In May 2020, the Datteln_4 power unit with a capacity (gross) of 1100 MW and steam parameters of 28.6 MPa, 600/620 o C was tested and put into operation. This unit is considered the last in a series of Western European coal-fired supercritical power ones. At the same time, the country passed a law on the complete decommissioning by the end of 2038 of all thermal power plants operating on coal and lignite. At the same time, a program of abandoning the use of nuclear power units is being implemented. The last such power units operating in the country should be shut down in 2022. The ongoing reform is aimed at making the country's energy sector environmentally neutral, based mainly on the operation of wind power plants (WPP) and solar power plants (SPP). Coal power units, gas turbine and combined cycle plants and storage batteries should take over the functions of covering both the unevenness of energy consumption and the variability of energy production of wind and solar power plants. The assessment of this task by the International Energy Agency (IEA) seems to be inadequate. The accelerated decommissioning of the newest modern power units of the Datteln_4 type significantly complicates its solution