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RWE’s Q1 lignite output plunges 36% on poor market condition
Lignite-based power generation at German utility RWE has dwindled 4.9 TWh, or 36%, year on year in 2020’s first quarter, with the firm attributing the fall to low power prices, it said late on Thursday.
read more... 24/04/2020
Czech energy group EPH to buy out Uniper in Schkopau plant
Czech energy group EPH’s subsidiary Saale Energie will take full control of the Schkopau lignite-fired power plant in Germany after agreeing to buy Uniper’s 58% stake, EPH said on Friday.
read more... 24/02/2020
EU's CO2 emissions fall 12% in 2019 as wind and solar surpass coal
The European Union’s (EU) electricity sector has emitted 12% less carbon dioxide (CO2) in 2019 compared to a year earlier as generation from hard coal- and lignite-fired power plants dropped by 24% on the year.
read more... 06/02/2020
Romania - one of largest lignite producers in EU
Lignite consumption in the European Union has halved in recent decades, reaching 370 million tonnes in 2018 from about 700 million tonnes in 1990, Eurostat figures show on Friday.
read more... 27/08/2019
Czech EPH will purchase Vattenfall's German lignite coal operations
Sweden's Vattenfall has decided in principle to sell its loss-making lignite coal mines and associated electricity plants in Germany to Czech investor EPH after two competitor bidders dropped out, as stated by three people familiar with the matter on Friday.
read more... 11/04/2016