Brown Coal

Two schemes aim at burning coal and spare tight gasSizeable hard coal-to-power plants may run into early 2024Brown coal plants may run to June 30, 2023Both schemes only valid while gas remains shortFRANKFURT, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Germany's cabinet on Wednesday passed two decrees to prolong the operation of sizeable…

Author of the article: FRANKFURT7DUESSELDORF — Two top-10 investors in RWE will not back a motion by activist shareholder Enkraft which asks Germany’s largest power producer to prepare a spin-off of its brown coal activities, they said on Tuesday. Enkraft’s motion, which will be put to a vote at RWE’s…

Updated 19 hours ago · Published on 7 Apr 2022 10:50PM · Greece’s government says it plans to double production of lignite, or brown coal, in the coming two years despite the pollution it causes as Athens aims to reduce its dependence upon Russian gas. – AFP pic, April 7,…

RIYADH: Global gas prices are expected to remain high driven by greater demand from the post-pandemic recovery, low storage capacity, and tensions in Ukraine, according to a report by the US Energy Information Administration. The natural gas spot price on the US benchmark Henry Hub will average $3.92 per million British…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — European Union’s top court on Friday ordered Poland to immediately stop mining brown coal at the Turow mine, which is on the border with the Czech Republic and Germany.Read More

Slightly raised radioactivity levels across northern Europe have put the spotlight on western Russia. But its nuclear power operator says plants near St. Petersburg and Murmansk have been operating "within the norm." Russia's power operator Rosenergoatom has downplayed observations by Nordic nuclear safety agencies of slightly increased levels of radioactive…

FRANKFURT/DUESSELDORF/PARIS (Reuters) - RWE (RWEG.DE) said on Friday it would seek dialogue with investor Amundi, which criticised the speed of its plans to move away from fossil fuels. “We will seek discussions (with Amundi) to explain our clearly mapped out withdrawal from coal,” a spokesman for RWE said after a…

FILE PHOTO: Steam rises from the cooling towers of the lignite power plant complex of German energy supplier and utility RWE in Neurath, north-west of Cologne, Germany, February 5, 2020. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay/File PhotoBERLIN/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet on Wednesday approved a 4.3 billion euro ($4.9 billion) compensation package…

Did you know that your choice of food and fashion could be contributing to wasteful land use? To combat desertification and drought, a UN secretary highlights how more responsible consumer choices can help. More than 2 billion hectares of previously productive land is degraded. For Desertification and Drought Day on June 17, DW spoke…

The odds are against the parasitic gambling industry being anything other than bigger and stronger and richer after the pandemic. We need a program that makes sure it won't. (Image: Unsplash/ Michał Parzuchowski)The Australian economy is in unprecedented flux, Australian society will never be the same — and yet I…