Germany has committed to completely decarbonize its national energy system. Going 100% renewables, however, comes with electricity dispatchability challenges. One of the possible solutions would be to replace the coal in coal power plants with renewable energy as the ‘fuel’ for the turbines, using thermal storage to offset the intermittency of renewables and thereby keep …
How Germany plans to phase out coal without losing all the coal jobs, and how other countries could do the same
