Status: 01/12/2023 5:40 p.m Bulgaria's parliament wants to keep the country's coal-fired power plants in operation for longer: a majority voted in favor of phasing out twelve years later. However, this runs counter to the EU recovery plan. Bulgaria wants to postpone the planned closure of its coal-fired power plants by around twelve years until 2038. The parliament in Sofia instructed the government to negotiate with the EU Commission about withdrawing the corresponding obligation. The decision in favor of the...
energy Woidke: Mentioning the year of the coal phase-out is not enough Brandenburg's Prime Minister Woidke wants reliability for a coal phase-out by 2030. Photo © Soeren Stache/dpa The plans of the Federal Ministry of Economics for an early exit from coal in 2030 continue to cause resentment in Brandenburg. Prime Minister Woidke demands reliability from the federal government. Brandenburg's Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke (SPD) is critical of the earlier coal phase-out in the east planned by Federal Minister of...
Brigitte Knopf is well versed in the abysses of climate protection. The Berlin researcher is deputy chairwoman of the expert council for climate issues - the body that is supposed to examine the climate efforts of the federal government every year. When it comes to traffic in particular, the gap is "very, very large," says Knopf: Total traffic emissions by 2030 could deviate from the German climate target by 260 million tons of carbon dioxide. "You can't get there with...
Global Energy Crisis Japan says goodbye to nuclear phase-out Earlier this week, a court rejected the demand by residents of the Mihama nuclear power plant that the reactor there, which is more than 40 years old, be shut down due to safety concerns. photo © --/kyodo/dpa After the Fukushima meltdown, Japan shut down all of the country's nuclear reactors and introduced significantly tightened safety standards. The country is now taking a completely different approach. Japan is increasingly relying on nuclear...
Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) has rejected calls from the FDP for the continued operation of nuclear power plants in Germany beyond mid-April. Habeck said on Wednesday after a meeting with Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) in Berlin when asked whether an extension of the term was an issue: "That was not an issue today and it will no longer be an issue." From his point of view, Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) "finally" decided that the nuclear power plants...
Now it's a done deal!Berlin – On the night of Friday, the Bundestag passed a law for the end of coal-fired power plants in NRW by 2030. The new regulation states that the actually planned end date will be brought forward by eight years – previously it was planned to 2038. also read At the same time, due to the energy crisis, the continued operation of two lignite-fired reactors, which were actually supposed to be shut down this year, is...
Status: 02.12.2022 02:05 am The Bundestag has voted for the early exit from lignite in North Rhine-Westphalia. Instead of 2038, this should now be completed as early as 2030. At the same time, the service life of two lignite-fired power plants was extended until the end of March 2024. The Bundestag has passed the law to phase out coal-fired power plants in North Rhine-Westphalia by 2030. During the night, parliament passed the regulations according to which the originally planned end...
Status: 05.10.2022 4:43 p.m Contrary to expectations, the cabinet has not yet dealt with the continued operation of two nuclear power plants beyond the end of the year. The plans of the Ministry of Economics do not go far enough for the FDP. She wants to keep the piles running until 2024. So far there is no agreement in the federal government on the limited continued operation of two southern German nuclear power plants. Contrary to the plans of Federal...
Status: 04.10.2022 10:32 a.m The energy company RWE wants to end lignite-fired power generation eight years earlier than planned, as early as 2030. This left around 280 million tons of coal in the ground. RWE wants to invest massively in renewable energies. The energy company RWE wants to bring the phase-out of coal forward by eight years to 2030. This provides for an agreement on key points between RWE, the Federal Ministry of Economics and the NRW Ministry of Economics....
Status: 04.10.2022 10:32 a.m The energy company RWE wants to end lignite-fired power generation eight years earlier than planned, as early as 2030. This left around 280 million tons of coal in the ground. RWE wants to invest massively in renewable energies. The energy company RWE wants to bring the phase-out of coal forward by eight years to 2030. This provides for an agreement on key points between RWE, the Federal Ministry of Economics and the NRW Ministry of Economics....
