Let me add it is about keeping a standby reserve and keeping coal power plants in standby for that (from the article: "The lignite plants have a single purpose: to push gas out of the power market at times of peak demand as a way of keeping prices low"), which makes sense. In particular when you want to be able to buffer occasional intra-day fluctuations it is easier to quickly fire up a lignite plant than a nuclear power plant. Note that overall Germany since 2022 reduced its natural gas dependency quite well by reducing gas consumption by 23% - helped by high prices of course (https://www.hertie-school.org/en/news/detail/content/energy-crisis-gas-savings-in-germany-not-only-due-to-weather-fluctuation) and conversely Russian gas exports - in combination with additional sourcing from the world market - overall went down quite a lot (https://energyandcleanair.org/financing-putins-war/) - yes there are still some imports by EU and personally I would be in favor of a complete stop of the residual imports for whole EU which seems to be perfectly doable but that is another topic. Because this is slashdot, fwiw I am working at the moment on a proposal for an EU call on open-source software energy sharing "Creation of a standardised and open-source peer-to-peer energy sharing platform architecture for the energy sector" (https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/horizon-cl5-2023-d3-03-05), anybody interesting in joining the advisory board drop me mail to hb3141 AT gmail DOT com (Holger).

For exactly this use case (archiving stuff from the web) you might be interested in Zotero, https://www.zotero.org/ It has an online option but also an offline option (I use the latter).

https://savedotorg.org/ has a public letter and a conf call on the topic.

Grepping a pdftotexted recursive wget of today's session protocols (283 pdfs) from http://www.bundesrat.de/cln_179/nn_8690/DE/parlamentsmaterial/to-plenum/885-sitzung/to-node.html?__nnn=true I have not spotted any explicit mention of coal ("Kohle" - not only this poster but also TFA implied that building coal plants was explicitly voted on today in the Upper House). What also *was* passed in the session was stuff related to Renewable Energy Acts being quite specifically geared towards adoption of renewable energy. Renewables are above 15% of electricity generation already, more than 5% by wind turbines alone. To keep perspectives, also note the planned phase-out of German government subsidies for coal mining is 2018, well before 2022.

While topologically a homeomorphism in that lousy metric space I'm living in those roundabout-induced "bulges" take more pedestrian distance than straight jaywalking at an intersection ...

To clarify the intention of the (not purely theoretical) question: Being able to a quote from a publicly available and quotable (model) contract that company xyz does with their employees, legislation abc suggests etc would be useful when negotiating with customers/employers. "(Respected) company xyz, legislation abc does it that way too."