On 13 March 2024, environmental activists in Poland won a court case against the Turów coal mine. The ruling, handed down by a regional administrative court in Warsaw, invalidated the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) required by PGE, Poland’s largest power producer, to  secure its mining licence until 2044.  The post Turów would avert many disasters by saying goodbye to coal appeared first on Beyond Fossil Fuels ..read more

The Government 2035 Commitment Tracker monitors commitments made by European governments to a fair and sustainable power system based on renewable energy beyond fossil fuels. The post Government 2035 Commitment Tracker appeared first on Beyond Fossil Fuels ..read more

The environment, climate, and energy ministers of the Group of Seven western industrialised states (G7) have committed to phase-out coal power ‘during the first half of the 2030s’, in the outcomes of their summit in Torino presented today. The post G7 agrees to phase-out coal but falls short of climate alignment 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

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