06 April 2022
The Greek government has announced that all of the country’s three existing coal plants can theoretically operate until 2025. The last of these plants had been due to close in 2023. The country’s Ptolemaida 5 coal plant, which is expected to be commissioned in early 2023, could operate until 2028 according to the Greek climate law and the country’s NECP. The plant had been scheduled to be converted to burn fossil gas in 2025.
30 April 2024
G7 agrees to phase-out coal but falls short of climate alignment
The environment, climate, and energy ministers of the Group of Seven western industrialised states (G7) have committed to phase-out coal power ‘during the first half of the 2030s’, in the outcomes of their summit in Torino presented today.
17 April 2024
District heating uses a network of underground pipes to deliver hot water from a central production plant to homes and businesses for heating.
27 March 2024
Gas Power Plant Tracker | Video
The Gas Power Plant Tracker provides the definitive overview of all of Europe’s gas power plants and units and their statuses: announced, pre-construction, construction, shelved, operating, mothballed, retired, cancelled.
27 March 2024
Tracking Europe’s fossil gas plants reveals major rift
Despite commitments from 12 European countries to move their power systems away from fossil fuels in line with the UN Paris Climate Agreement by 2035, analysis conducted by Beyond Fossil Fuels reveals a glaring chasm.
