Türkiye’s Ministry of Energy’s recent announcement about turning former coal mining sites into solar fields is a promising but cautious step toward a cleaner future. On paper, it signals a shift away from costly, polluting fossil fuels, something Türkiye urgently needs to plan for. But the true test will be in how this transformation is implemented, and who truly benefits from it.
Europe’s clean energy transition depends on modern, efficient electricity grids to unlock its full potential, but outdated regulatory structures and insufficient oversight are slowing down progress. In this paper we propose two urgent reforms for national governments:
By Juliet Phillips, Energy Campaigner at Beyond Fossil Fuels. Three months after the massive blackout that plunged Spain and Portugal […]
In July 2023, the European Commission adopted its proposal to revise and merge the End-of-Life Vehicles Directive and the 3R […]
Beyond Fossil Fuels, together with BankTrack, Cittadini Sostenibili, Coal Action Network, Reclaim Finance, ShareAction, and Urgewald, wrote to BNP Paribas […]
Across Europe, coal power is on its last legs. Most European countries committed to phasing out one of the dirtiest fossil fuels from their power sectors over the past decade. Now those commitments are starting to materialise. The summer of 2025 marks a historic moment: two of Europe’s largest economies, Italy and Spain, are preparing to end coal power generation on the mainland, following closely on the heels of Ireland’s coal exit in June and the UK’s in 2024. These closures are not isolated events. They are part of a broader transformation already reshaping the European energy landscape from fossil fuels to renewables-based.
Jakie korzyści może przynieść jedna turbina wiatrowa? Jak spółdzielnie mogą zmniejszyć rachunki za prąd o połowę? Odpowiedzi szukać można na Lubelszczyźnie, gdzie działa pierwsza w Polsce turbina wiatrowa w spółdzielni energetycznej. Ceny prądu nieustannie pozostają tematem rozmów i obaw wśród Polek i Polaków. Nie inaczej jest w Hrubieszowie, mieście w województwie lubelskim. Jednak tam rozmowy przerodziły się w konkretne rozwiązania. To właśnie tam postawiono na spółdzielnie energetyczne. Dzięki temu członkowie spółdzielni oszczędzają kilkadziesiąt tysięcy złotych miesięcznie na rachunkach za energię - jest ona o połowę tańsza niż kupowana z sieci.
On 13 March 2024, environmental activists in Poland won a court case against the Turów coal mine. The ruling, handed down by a regional administrative court in Warsaw, invalidated the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) required by PGE, Poland’s largest power producer, to secure its mining licence until 2044.
The idea of building windmills in the Pomeranian municipality of Potęgowo first appeared nearly 25 years ago. Back then, rumors swirled that the presence of windmills would be disastrous for local agriculture—chickens would stop laying eggs, and cows would stop producing milk. Today, we can safely say that it was all fairytales. Since the first turbines were installed in 2008, Potęgowo has seen the construction of 56 turbines, with 23 more currently underway.