Eight Turkish coal plant projects cancelled!
April 23, 2021 2:38 pmThe cancellation of eight Turkish coal plant projects has helped reduce Europe’s new coal pipeline by more than a third […]
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One tenth of Turkey’s planned coal projects wiped out
March 12, 2021 6:13 pmThree coal power plant projects accounting for ten percent of Turkey’s planned coal pipeline have been scrapped.
BULGARIA ANNOUNCES CLIMATE FAILING COAL EXIT
October 15, 2021 12:00 pmThe Bulgarian government has announced that the country will phase out coal in 2038 or 2040, n its National Resilience […]
Greece brings coal exit forward by three years to 2025
April 22, 2021 5:07 pmOperator PPC abandons plan to operate under construction Ptolemaida 5 lignite plant until 2028 due to skyrocketing carbon permit prices, bringing […]
CEZ Group to close its 600 MW Dětmarovice coal plant
April 7, 2021 4:05 pmCEZ Group announced that it will close its 600 MW Dětmarovice coal-powered plant in the Czech Republic by the end […]
EDF’s Le Havre coal plant retires
March 31, 2021 4:55 pmEDF’s 57 year-old, 630MW Le Havre coal plant closed its doors for the final time today.
ROMANIA COMMITS TO EXITING COAL BY 2032 AT THE LATEST
September 28, 2021 6:26 pmThe Romanian government has committed the country to phasing-out hard coal and lignite power production by 2032 in its National […]
Europe is halfway to closing all its coal plants
March 23, 2021 10:23 amFive years from the UN Paris Climate Agreement, half of all coal plants operating or under construction in Europe (162 […]
Enel turns off coal units 1 and 2 at its Fusina coal plant
September 3, 2021 10:53 amThe 145 and 155 MW units will permanently close by the end of the year.