Germany Looks To Step Up Coal Exit Timetable
Faizan Hashmi Published January 16, 2020 | 03:26 PM
Germany could end electricity generation from coal in 2035, three years earlier than previously planned, under a pact sealed Thursday between Chancellor Angela Merkel and leaders of affected states
Frankfurt am Main, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 16th Jan, 2020 ) :Germany could end electricity generation from coal in 2035, three years earlier than previously planned, under a pact sealed Thursday between Chancellor Angela Merkel and leaders of affected states.
Merkel and premiers from Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia and Brandenburg agreed overnight a "shutdown plan" for the country's power plants using the highly polluting fossil fuel, her spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a statement.
Until now, Berlin had named 2038 as the latest possible date to power down the final coal-fired generators.
Now, reviews in 2026 and 2029 will examine "whether the moment to shut down the plants can be brought forward by three years," Seibert said.
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