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.

05 February 2018

Sacrificing culture and communities for coal

The Immerather Dom has become a symbol of the lost heritage and community destruction becasuee of the expansion of Germany’s vast Rhineland coal mines.

27 March 2023

To a renewable future

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. 

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.