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Poland hopes for progress in talks with Czechs over Turow mine
Poland hopes to make progress in negotiations with the new Czech government over the open-pit lignite Turow mine near the border, Poland's prime minister said on Tuesday, referring to the most serious spat between the two European Union members in decades.
read more... 29/12/2021
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Poland’s solar capacity doubles in a year
Poland's installed solar generation capacity doubled year on year to reach 5.5GW at the end of July, but its strong growth has raised challenges for the stability of the Polish power system, which continues to depend on less flexible coal and lignite-fired plants.
read more... 06/09/2021
German gas generation falls 35%, coal rebounds as margins diverge
German gas-fired power generation fell in July as record high European gas hub prices further eroded margins, while hard coal generation almost exceeded gas-fired generation and lignite topped the German power mix.
read more... 06/08/2021
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Natural gas leading source of EU's power emissions
Gas power plants overtook lignite coal plants in 2020 to become the European Union's largest single source of emissions from electricity, an analysis of the bloc's Emissions Trading Scheme showed Friday.
read more... 19/04/2021
German gas plant capacity set to exceed coal and lignite in 2023
Germany's gas-fired generation capacity is set to exceed that of coal and of lignite within two years as total dispatchable capacity drops below 60 GW, regulator BNetzA's latest power plant list shows.
read more... 27/01/2021