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E.ON should have never begun building the long-delayed hard coal power plant in Datteln, because the energy transition was already in full swing at the start of construction in 2007 and coal “a phase-out model”, writes Jürgen Flauger in an opinion piece in Handelsblatt. “The facility is a symbol for the arrogance with which the established energy industry has ignored the boom of renewable energies for way too long – and had brought onto itself the problems,” writes Flauger. Uniper further delays to the start of its new hard-coal power plant Datteln 4, “given pending lawsuits”. It was originally scheduled to start operation in 2011.

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