Special Envoy to Lubmin, Germany
At the bend of a bend, overlooking a birch wood, at the edge of a national road lined with thatched houses appears the sleeping mastodon with its brown concrete walls. A nearby field is covered with photovoltaic panels. A stone's throw behind this Lubmin power plant, the terminal inaugurated at the beginning of the year, in a mouth of the Baltic Sea, sees the noria of LNG carriers from Qatar or Norway loaded with liquefied gas (LNG).
Another sign of the times is that the plant's electrical transformer station, once the starting point for the energy produced by the atom, is now connected to the Baltic 1 and Baltic 2 offshore wind farms. At the time of their operation, the five Soviet-designed nuclear reactors produced 11% of the electricity of the former East Germany, the GDR. The "largest power plant" in Europe, at the time of its inauguration in 1974, operated by hand...
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