To kickstart the new year, Slovakia and Austria have bid farewell to coal power. Slovakia has expedited its coal exit from 2030 to 2024, while rumours of a return to coal in Austria have failed to materialise, with record additions of solar and wind power easing out coal and helping to ensure security of supply.
Austria reinstates its coal-free status after an emergency measure to reopen the mothballed Mellach coal plant (246 MW) in June […]
Austria has become the second European country to totally eliminate coal from electricity production, with its last coal power plant, […]
Austria, permanently closing its last coal power plant Verbund’s Mellach, is the second European country to totally eliminate coal electricity production.
Verbund, Austria’s largest electricity provider, announced that it would shut its 226MW combined heat and power unit at Mellach by […]
The 168MW Riedersbach II plant, owned by regional utility Energie AG Oberosterreich, was closed in 2016.
Lower Austrian utility group EVN announced its decision to exit from coal power production in late 2015, ahead of the […]