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Biomass can be as bad as coal

July 5, 2019 4:41 pm Published by Beyond Fossil Fuels

New boilers to burn biomass and waste at the Prerov combined heat and power plant in Czechia will be built […]

June 18, 2019 12:29 pm Published by Beyond Fossil Fuels

In a press conference with the prime minister, president Zuzana Čaputová, pledged to support the 2050 target and revealed that […]

June 17, 2019 11:40 am Published by Beyond Fossil Fuels

Fiddler’s Ferry plant will close in 2020 after £40m loss last year. Meanwhile, EVN’s closure of its Duernrohr plant the […]

June 7, 2019 4:35 pm Published by Beyond Fossil Fuels

The state-controlled French utility said this decision is in line with the plans of the national government to phase out […]

May 18, 2019 4:39 pm Published by Beyond Fossil Fuels

Veolia wants to build a new multi-fuel boiler able to burn coal at the Karvina coal plant in Czechia in […]

April 26, 2019 12:16 pm Published by Beyond Fossil Fuels

Another RWE coal plant project was cancelled. The court ruled against the project of this coal plant in Niederaussem because […]

March 31, 2019 12:08 pm Published by Beyond Fossil Fuels

The coal-fired boiler of the plant will be taken off the grid in 2021, marking an end to coal in […]

March 31, 2019 10:08 am Published by Beyond Fossil Fuels

Uniper’s coal-fired power plant Kiel East closed in March 2019 to be replaced with a new gas-powered cogeneration plant. Plans […]

March 29, 2019 11:07 am Published by Beyond Fossil Fuels

Originally due to be decommissioned in 2017, RWE’s Werne Gersteinwerk coal plant retired in March 2019.