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Ibbenbüren Blown Up: 840 Megawatts Gone – and Germany Applauds
On February 22, 2026, it exploded in Ibbenbüren, North Rhine-Westphalia. 600 kilograms of explosives. A 275-meter-tall smokestack. And with it: 840 megawatts of secured capacity. The former hard coal power plant is history. What reliably supplied electricity for decades – dispatchable, predictable, stable – was celebrated as a “milestone of the energy transition.” A milestone. Toward the abyss. 840 megawatts – simply wiped out. The hard coal power plant Read more