Denmark will phase out coal by 2028
March 23, 2021 10:14 amThe last coal-fired combined heat and power plant in Denmark will close in 2028, thereby bringing the national coal phase-out forward by two years.
The last coal-fired combined heat and power plant in Denmark will close in 2028, thereby bringing the national coal phase-out forward by two years.
Denmark’s District Heating Funen has announced that it will stop burning coal at its Fynsværket coal power plant in 2022 - three years earlier than planned.
Ørsted announced in 2017 it will cease coal use by 2023. At the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit, the company annoucned it will stop using coal from 2022.
The Danish Amager 3 coal unit in Copenhagen is out of operation at the end of March. This leaves Denmark, with four coal plants.
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