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German coal commission to recommend delaying closures to 2022: report
Germany's coal commission may recommend delaying a first wave of coal plant closures to 2022 rather than 2020, German financial daily Handelsblatt reports based on a leaked draft following Thursday's meeting of the commission.
read more... 19/11/2018
Vattenfall looks to gas and biomass as end of coal power looms
Vattenfall is considering converting its German coal-fired power stations to use fuels including gas or biomass as utility companies in the country brace for a government deadline for phasing out coal altogether.
read more... 29/10/2018
World Bank will not support new coal power plant in Kosovo
President of the World Bank Group Jim Yong Kim confirmed that the international organization will not support a coal power plant in Kosovo.
read more... 11/10/2018
Coal in oversupply in Poland: CEO of coal-mining giant
Chairman of state-owned PGG, the country’s biggest coal mining firm, Tomasz Rogala has said that increased coal imports to Poland have led to excess supplies in some segments of the market, Poland’s PAP news agency reported.
read more... 01/10/2018
Romania’s pit coal reserves are enough for 104 years but their exploitation is economically inefficient
Romania’s pit coal resources would be sufficient for 104 years, but their exploitation is impossible, being economically inefficient, so that four of the five groups in Deva will be closed down, show the draft of Romania’s Energy Strategy 2018 – 2030.
read more... 21/09/2018