Germany about to open Datteln-4 coal power plant

Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 16 November 2014 at 17:24:19 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 11 September 2015 at 10:40:36 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 07 February 2020 at 10:42:11 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 13 February 2020 at 17:16:35 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Climate change, global warming, non-renewable energy, infrastructure, Germany
Fig. 1 - S1 (16.11.2014) - vv,vh,ndi(vh,vv) composite - Located on a crossroads of 4 canals, Datteln is the biggest canal junction in the World.
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Lying in the industrial North Rhine-Westphalia, it's also where 3 coal plants Datteln -1, -2 & -3 (100MW to 119MW) opened between 1964 & 1969.
Fig. 2 - S1 (13.02.2020) - vv,vh,ndi(vh,vv) composite - All 3 (red) closed in 2014, replaced by the 1100MW Datteln-4 (yellow), about to open.
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Fig. 3 - S2 (11.09.2015) - 4,3,2 natural colour - As of october 2017, it was the only coal station being built in western Europe.
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Fig. 4 - S2 (07.02.2015) - 4,3,2 natural colour - It will allow to close several older coal plants; Germany aims to end coal power in 2038.
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024, processed by VisioTerra.
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