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Cementing Coal Power Phaseout, Germany Sets Out to Shutter 40% of Current Generation Mix

January 30, 2020 admin affordability, Business, carbon emissions, climate change, Coal, coal phase-out, Environmental, federal cabinet, Fuel, Gas, GERMANY, International, Legal & Regulatory, Markets, news, Nuclear, nuclear phase out, reliability, Renewables, rwe, Technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 14:19:43 +0000

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Germany’s federal cabinet on Jan. 29 approved a nationwide phaseout of coal power generation by 2038, paving the way for the country, which has already initiated a nuclear phaseout, to rely even more heavily on renewables. The federal cabinet’s approval of the “Reduction and Termination of Coal Power Generation” (Gesetz zur Reduzierung und zur Beendigung der […]

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Germany’s Coal Exit Bound to Be Complicated

February 28, 2019 admin biomass, Business, climate change, Coal, coal phase-out, Energy Storage, Environmental, finance, Gas, GERMANY, Hydro, International, Legal & Regulatory, Legislative, market economics, Markets, news, Nuclear, Offshore, Power Demand, Renewables, rwe, scope, Solar, Technology, uniper, Wind

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Eight years after Germany decided it would halt nuclear power production by 2022, the country that relied on lignite and hard coal for 38% of its generated power in 2018 will phase out coal by 2038 or earlier

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