District heating uses a network of underground pipes to deliver hot water from a central production plant to homes and businesses for heating. The post Cleaning up District Heating appeared first on Beyond Fossil Fuels ..read more

District heating uses a network of underground pipes to deliver hot water from a central production plant to homes and businesses for heating. The post Cleaning up District Heating appeared first on Beyond Fossil Fuels ..read more

The Gas Power Plant Tracker provides the definitive overview of all of Europe's gas power plants and units and their statuses: announced, pre-construction, construction, shelved, operating, mothballed, retired, cancelled. The post Gas Power Plant Tracker appeared first on Beyond Fossil Fuels ..read more

BERLIN, 27 MARCH 2024 – Despite commitments from 12 European countries to move their power systems away from fossil fuels in line with the UN Paris Climate Agreement by 2035 [1], analysis conducted by Beyond Fossil Fuels reveals a glaring chasm: 98 percent of the continent’s existing gas power generation capacity lacks a retirement plan, […] The post Tracking Europe’s fossil gas plants reveals major rift appeared first on Beyond Fossil Fuels ..read more

Environmental activists protested outside Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala's residence today to mark two years since the Czech-Polish deal on the Turów coal mine crisis. The post Protest over broken promises: Two years after Polish-Czech deal, Turów communities remain thirsty for justice appeared first on Beyond Fossil Fuels ..read more

The Finance Committee of Odense, Denmark is extending operations of the Fjernvarme Fyn power plant from its originally scheduled end in December 2022 until spring 2024. The Odense government still maintains their 2030 climate neutrality goal.” The post Denmark appeared first on Beyond Fossil Fuels ..read more

Austria’s government orders the operator of the country’s 246MW Mellach coal plant to prepare it for operation, amidst questions over who will staff the plant, where the coal to burn at the plant will be procured from, and the legal basis for reversing the country’s 2020 coal phase out. The post Austria appeared first on Beyond Fossil Fuels ..read more

EDF has agreed to the UK government’s April 2022 request to keep its West Burton A coal power plant operating through the upcoming winter. Of the plant’s four 547MW units, EDF will make two available, postponing their closure to April 2023. All four units had been scheduled to close by September 2022, but remain under […] The post UK appeared first on Beyond Fossil Fuels ..read more

VW prolongs coal-burning at its 306MW Wolfsburg coal power plant. The post Germany appeared first on Beyond Fossil Fuels ..read more

The Polish government has approved measures to subsidise coal for households and housing cooperatives. The post Poland appeared first on Beyond Fossil Fuels ..read more