Energy News Roundup: Germany’s ‘Shocking Coal Boom’

Breaking Energy 2014-01-08

Summary:

RWE Struggles To Remain Profitable, Mulls Closing Garzweiler Mine

Germany is facing an energy paradox where significant increases in renewably-generated power – mostly from wind and solar – are being surpassed by increases in coal-fired power. Part of the reason stems from the country’s decision to phase out its nuclear fleet. A majority of the nuclear generation capacity that has come offline – 8

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Authors:

Jared Anderson

Date tagged:

01/08/2014, 10:11

Date published:

01/08/2014, 08:30