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Fine dust-stricken Stuttgart now with less coal pollution

March 18, 2018 8:31 am Published by Beyond Fossil Fuels

At the end of 2018, a new combined heat and power plant in Gaisburg took the place of the old […]

March 16, 2018 10:00 am Published by Beyond Fossil Fuels

The large coal plant of Eggborough in North Yorkshire announced that it would close after an unsuccessful bid in the […]

March 8, 2018 10:03 am Published by Beyond Fossil Fuels

In early 2018, Volkswagen announced it would convert its two coal power plants in Wolfsburg – including Wolfsburg North and […]

March 2, 2018 10:18 am Published by Beyond Fossil Fuels

The second coal unit at the Werdohl-Elverlingsen power plant in North-Rhine Westphalia will be retired at the end of March […]

January 27, 2018 12:20 pm Published by Beyond Fossil Fuels

The remaining coal-fired unit of the Duisberg-Hochfeld combined heat and power plant closed in March 2018. Thanks to, among others, […]

January 25, 2018 12:25 pm Published by Beyond Fossil Fuels

The public utility and city of Cottbus announced that its lignite plant would close by 2022, to be replaced by […]

January 1, 2018 12:29 pm Published by Beyond Fossil Fuels

An EU regulation dictated the closure of Adamów lignite plant in Poland at the end of 2017, bringing a breath […]

January 1, 2018 8:50 am Published by Beyond Fossil Fuels

Known for having the tallest flue-gas stack in Europe, Trbovlje Power Station in the Sava valley originally had four coal-fired […]

October 19, 2017 12:40 pm Published by Beyond Fossil Fuels

In October 2017, the German capital passed a law to become coal-free by 2030. All remaining Berlin coal plants, Moabit, […]