“Germany's dirty little coal secret”
ABC News (Australia)
Continued power production from lignite in Germany is in stark contrast to the country’s reputation “as a pioneer of clean, green energy”, writes Tom Morton for ABC News. “The energy transition has a dirty secret. Renewables have been so successful that the only energy source that is still cheaper is brown coal.” Morton reports from eastern German Lusatia, a region that faces deep structural changes if coal was replaced by renewable energy sources.
Read the article in English here.
Read the CLEW factsheet Setting the power price: the merit order effect and the CLEW article Czech utility takes over Vattenfall’s German lignite.
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