News Digest Item
22 Sep 2016

“Climate killer for sale”

tageszeitung

Utility Vattenfall wants to sell its Hamburg coal power plant Moorburg, according to a report by daily tageszeitung. Vattenfall CEO Magnus Hall did not rule out a sale within five years, as the company did not need Moorburg in the long term. A Vattenfall Germany spokesperson said there were no concrete plans for a sale yet, but added that the plant did not fit to the company’s philosophy in the long term, as it wanted to become climate neutral by 2050.

Find the report in German here.

Find a Reuters report on the subject in English here.

For background, read the CLEW article Moorburg power plant – Last of a dying breed, or the future of coal in Germany?

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