Environmental activists are welcoming the end of electricity generation from coal in Portugal, though they said Monday the possible conversion of the country's last coal-fired power plant into one that burns wood pellets would be a step in the wrong direction.
read more... 23/11/2021
The scramble over the role of gas and nuclear in the EU’s sustainable finance rules has become a source of tension in the German government talks as the country’s first ever three-party coalition is being negotiated in Berlin.
read more... 22/11/2021
China's daily coal output hit 11.67 million tonnes on November 2, rising around one million tonnes from early October, close to a record high this year amid a raft of measures to ramp up production, according to the country's state planner.
read more... 04/11/2021
The director of CINEA, a recently established EU agency managing €55 billion in EU funding for clean energy and transport, has told EURACTIV about the challenge of ending fossil fuel projects entirely, saying coal and natural gas assets “are not simply going to go away” and need to be managed during the transition.
read more... 29/10/2021
Spain is on track to phase out nuclear power, coal power and oil-fired plants by 2035.
read more... 21/10/2021