28 March 2023

Affordable, clean and secure energy is possible by 2035

To permanently cut our bills, quickly take back control of our energy supplies, and address the climate emergency, our power system needs to be fossil-free and completely based on renewables by 2035.

Accelerating solar, wind, and heat pump installation alone would replace over two-thirds of Europe’s pre-war fossil gas and coal imports from Russia.

Governments, businesses, financial institutions and utilities have a responsibility to mobilise every euro and measure of influence to deliver massive renewable power rollouts and energy savings measures.

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27 March 2023

When we first launched Europe Beyond Coal in 2017, Europe had 328 coal plants and only 3 countries with plans to quit coal. Fast forward to today and coal is in decline. Only 157 coal plants are left without a 2030 closure date and 23 countries are already coal-free or have a plan to quit coal. To solve the cost of living, security and climate crises, we must transform Europe’s power sector so that it is free of fossil fuels and based fully on renewable energy by 2035. 

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27 March 2024

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.

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16 November 2021

See how one former mining town in Spain has set about adapting to this post-coal world by retrofitting one of its disused coal mines to produce emission-free heat for the community.

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16 July 2019

German utility RWE is Europe’s worst polluter, and one of the biggest threats to the climate and to a fast enough coal phase out on the continent.