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Germany's clean energy drive fails to curb dirty brown coal [View all]
Despite Germany's green energy drive, which subsidises renewable wind and solar energy and aims to drop nuclear power, the country mined 5.1 percent more brown coal in 2012, industry association Debriv data showed.
Brown coal-fired plants also produced 6 percent more power, the 159 billion kilowatt hours (kWh) accounting for 25.7 percent of Germany's power production, industry figures showed.
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And it is coal that is winning out because German utilities can turn a profit using it to generate electricity, something they are failing to do with gas.
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Analysts say one possibility is that Germany might introduce a tax aimed at ensuring those cashing in on lignite help fund the country's 550 billion euro ($715 billion) shift to low carbon energy.
http://news.yahoo.com/germanys-clean-energy-drive-fails-curb-dirty-brown-134207188.html
Brown coal-fired plants also produced 6 percent more power, the 159 billion kilowatt hours (kWh) accounting for 25.7 percent of Germany's power production, industry figures showed.
...
And it is coal that is winning out because German utilities can turn a profit using it to generate electricity, something they are failing to do with gas.
...
Analysts say one possibility is that Germany might introduce a tax aimed at ensuring those cashing in on lignite help fund the country's 550 billion euro ($715 billion) shift to low carbon energy.
http://news.yahoo.com/germanys-clean-energy-drive-fails-curb-dirty-brown-134207188.html
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