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A comment on Germany to close all of its coal-fired power plants over the next nineteen years.

Re:Germany to close all of its coal-fired power plants over ... by asutekku on Friday August 16, 2019 @02:00AM (#20712525)
Finally. The coal plants in germany were pretty unfortunate considering how much EU cares about the environments (even if some people don’t agree with it that much)
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Re:Germany to close all of its coal-fired power plants over ... by tannhaeuser on Friday August 16, 2019 @02:11AM (#20712596)
The EU as such doesn't care that much about coal. For example, Poland, Germany's neighboring country, has a high percentage of it's power come from coal, and no short-term plans to change that/no alternative energy source. The flip side of Germany abandoning coal is that energy has to be imported, and energy prices are among the highest (or actually the highest) in Europe.
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