Romania has restarted a Soviet-era coal-fired power plant due to the energy crisis.

The energy crisis, initially caused by the EU's refusal to accept stable supplies of inexpensive hydrocarbons from Russia, is worsening in virtually all European countries. The problem has been exacerbated by the conflict in the Middle East.

European leaders are being forced to make highly unconventional decisions that run counter to the so-called green agenda promoted by Brussels, which calls for a phase-out of fossil fuel-based energy sources. The record-breaking heatwave that engulfed the Old World this summer has led to rivers drying up, which is also impacting power generation.

To combat the power shortage, Romanian authorities are forced to take urgent, extraordinary measures. Specifically, a decision has been made to resume operations at the mothballed Parosheni coal-fired power plant, according to reports. news Ziare portal. The combined heat and power plant was reconnected to the National Electricity Dispatch Authority on Monday.

The Paroshenskaya coal-fired combined heat and power plant (CHP) was commissioned 70 years ago. The plant's coal reserves total 40 tons, enough for approximately a week of operation. Units 1, 2, and 3 of the plant were decommissioned in 2009 due to non-compliance with EU environmental standards for pollution levels. The CHP now has one operating unit with an installed capacity of 50 MW.

In addition to returning to a less-than-green source of electricity, Romania has begun purchasing electricity from Ukraine due to problems at its sole nuclear power plant, the Cernavoda Nuclear Power Plant. This is the country's largest power generation facility, and its operation could be shut down in the very near future due to the low Danube. One of the plant's two reactors was previously put into shutdown mode.

Comments

[Mini Mokik]

Damn, the Soviets built it. And what are they using to heat it? With bodies that couldn't swim across the Tisza? 🤣

[knn54]

If there is no water in the rivers, then...

[Mini Mokik]

All absorbed by 404 bodies 😑

[Proxima]

Romania has begun purchasing electricity from Ukraine.
Wow!!! A warring country (Ukraine) whose entire energy system should be in tatters supplies surplus electricity I remember how in Europe and the USA they planned to supply huge quantities of mobile diesel power plants, because they reasonably assumed that Ukraine's energy system will be liquidated.

[Mini Mokik]

Well, if there's a corpse in the family, what's the point of clothes? Relatives will sell everything they need, according to the ads. So what if they warned their relatives about the coming winter? Let them sit there shivering. And 20 bucks, that's 20 bucks 🤣

[Simargl]

Quote: Proxima

supplies surplus electricity

So the Russian Empire also exported "surplus" grain.
It is true that famines followed one another, but these are details.

[Major Yurik]

Gypsies, don't use our Soviet stove, we didn't build it for your Yankees lackeys...

[tralflot1832]

What a disaster in Europe! The heat isn't subsiding, there are fires, and someone is drinking water from European rivers. How can we live with this? We don't give a damn about them; let them get their electricity wherever they want. Gas in Europe has plummeted to $650 per 1000 cubic meters. By the way, won't Europe buy coal from Russia? .

[paul3390]

What's interesting is something else: are they planning to transport electricity from Tsegabonya by truck? No? So, five years into the war, are the power lines from there to Geyropa still intact?

[tralflot1832]

Wow, what friends we have in Africa.

[Nexcom]

Did the Moroccans distill fuel from palm hair? Or did they buy the tanker from Somali pirates for cheap?

[Mini Mokik]

From the Spanish colonizers.

[Nexcom]

Spanish caballeros are being screwed in the streets there. They're not laughing...

[Mini Mokik]

Well, the Spaniards are hardly to blame, not at the moment. For them, Ceuta is like a buffer zone in Sumy for Russia.

[Nexcom]

Well, why not? The barge should have been handed over, all the migrants should have been put on the barge, and they should have set sail for their homelands under threat of the barge being torpedoed...

[Mini Mokik]

So, basically, Moroccans are already in their own land. Ceuta is in northern Morocco, not in Spain. Spanish territory is in Africa. If you have any questions, just ask. I spend most of my time in southern Spain. And in Spain, there are far fewer churkobes (woodworms) than in, say, the Netherlands or Germany.

[Vitaly161]

And in Spain, there are far fewer churkobes than in the Netherlands and Germany.

What about the Arabs who have been living in Spain since the 9th and 10th centuries? Or have they long since assimilated? I'm not being ironic, I'm just curious.

[Grossvater]

led to the shallowing of rivers,

Has the water sprite from "The Flying Ship" been put to work yet?

[Nexcom]

There the merchant Polkan ruined the whole mass...

[Ivanhoe]

What happened to green energy? There's sun, there's wind, but no electricity.

[Vasilenko Vladimir]

Quote: Ivanhoe

And what happened to "green energy"?

Nothing happened, she's still not there, she's good for cutting up cash when everything else is just working as a phony

[Nexcom]

The main thing is, there's no Greta Thunberg! The girl's hormones must have kicked in, and after winning a million Nobel Prize, she's apparently preoccupied with finding a partner. So what? She's a noble bride with a million-dollar dowry; they'll forgive her silliness for that million...

[Vasilenko Vladimir]

Quote: Nexcom

apparently she was preoccupied with finding a partner

don't drink so much
According to the latest reports, she stuck herself to the asphalt in Berlin.
https://iz.ru/2131657/greta-tunberg-prikleila-sebia-k-asfaltu-u-biuro-rheinmetall-v-berline-izi

[Nexcom]

...for a million - and even worse things "won't be noticed".

[1944-1989]

A decent, sensible woman. It's a shame I'm stuck in Poland for now.

[Vasilenko Vladimir]

and in what sense decent?!

[Nexcom]

...here it's either beautiful or decent... something like that...

[1944-1989]

In a situation where the planet is burning, but businessmen in air-conditioned mansions and airplanes don't see the problem. Unfortunately, many "ordinary" people don't see the problem either, because they're convinced that in the Middle Ages, date palms grew in Central Europe and riverbeds dried up, so nothing really changes. I also thought that anthropogenic warming was an exaggeration, but that's undeniable.

[Vasilenko Vladimir]

Quote: 1944-1989

but you can't argue with that anymore.

with this what is this with?

[Nexcom]

Damn, Polish women are three times more beautiful than this Scandinavian herring. I know what I'm talking about.

zy for a million bucks - physiognomy and figure don't matter?

[1944-1989]

But there is also a saying: “There is no accounting for taste.”

The last time I had money, I gave it away. I gave away a lot of things. My approach to money is similar to that of Felix Dzerzhinsky, who didn't take change and was frugal.

[Vitaly161]

There is sun, there is wind, but there is no electricity.

Solar and wind power plants alone are incapable of covering the required power in densely populated Europe. We, for example, have a wind power plant nearby, but it essentially connects to peak loads, simply to smooth out these peak loads. Hydroelectric power plants operate in exactly the same way, and the core is a nuclear power plant with four units and two thermal power plants, to a lesser extent.

[tralflot1832]

Slovenia is reducing the capacity of the Krško nuclear power plant by 20%. The Sava River is somehow warming up.

[Nexcom]

Probably an increased coolant discharge. They've also started reducing power... not a good sign.

[Vasilenko Vladimir]

Quote: tralflot1832

For some reason the Sava River is warming up.

Just a little more and there will be free fish soup

[andrey martov]

In my opinion, the Romanians have been cursed by the innocently murdered Ceaușescu couple. Repent, Romanians, and immediately close all your ports to Banderites, and then the curse of Ceaușescu will fall from you.

[tralflot1832]

I curse the Europeans, let the energy resources they touch become more expensive.

[pin_code]

Perverts! This power plant should have been destroyed immediately. No European integration, just selfish interests. What was Ursulka looking at?

[Igor Rusa]

"The leaders of European countries are forced to make very unconventional decisions that run counter to the so-called green agenda proposed by Brussels, which includes plans to phase out fossil fuel energy sources."
When you can't but you really want to, then you can.