Sweden follows hot on Austria’s heels to go coal free
April 21, 2020 10:02 amSweden, permanently closing its last coal power plant Stockholm Exergi AB’s Värtaverket, is the third European country to totally eliminate coal electricity production.
Sweden, permanently closing its last coal power plant Stockholm Exergi AB’s Värtaverket, is the third European country to totally eliminate coal electricity production.
Austria, permanently closing its last coal power plant Verbund’s Mellach, is the second European country to totally eliminate coal electricity production.
Polish state-owned energy company PGE has omitted the Gubin coal mine project from its latest financial report, confirming in this way that it has been shelved.
UK bank Barclays has bypassed an opportunity to put right its weak fossil fuel policy with the release of its new environmental report.
ContourGlobal, a power generator, has announced today that it has abandoned its plans to construct a 500-megawatt coal-fired power plant in Kosovo.
German energy company Uniper has confirmed it does not intend to align its business with the goals of the Paris climate agreement.
North Macedonian government approved a national energy strategy, the first country in the Western Balkans to consider a coal phase-out before 2030.
Polish energy companies Enea SA and Energa SA have suspended financing for Ostrołęka C, the last coal plant under construction in Poland.
Polish authorities have controversially rubber-stamped an environmental permit for the expansion of PGE’s Turów open-pit lignite mine.