Germany, one of the world’s biggest consumers of coal, will shut down all 84 of its coal-fired power plants over the next 19 years to meet its international commitments in the fight against climate change. The German government decided to shut down all of its nuclear power plants by 2022 in the wake of Japan’s Fukushima disaster in 2011.
Renewable energy has replaced coal as Germany’s main power source. Wind is now Germany’s second-largest single source of power.
Meanwhile in the UK, Scottish Power became the country’s first integrated energy company to switch from coal and gas generation to wind power in 2018. In the last decade, Scottish Power has closed all of its coal plants and sold its remaining gas and hydro power stations.
Scottish Power now has 2,700 megawatts of wind power capacity either operating or under construction, with future projects capable of generating more than 3,000 megawatts.
Elsewhere, Costa Rica is among the top five countries leading the use of renewable resources. Since 2014, the country’s energy has come from 99% renewable sources and it has run on 100% renewable energy for over two months, twice in the past two years.
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Germany, one of the world’s biggest consumers of coal, will shut down all 84 of its coal-fired power plants over the next 19 years to meet its international commitments in the fight against climate change. The German government decided to shut down all of its nuclear power plants by 2022 in the wake of Japan’s Fukushima disaster in 2011.
Renewable energy has replaced coal as Germany’s main power source. Wind is now Germany’s second-largest single source of power.
Meanwhile in the UK, Scottish Power became the country’s first integrated energy company to switch from coal and gas generation to wind power in 2018. In the last decade, Scottish Power has closed all of its coal plants and sold its remaining gas and hydro power stations.
Scottish Power now has 2,700 megawatts of wind power capacity either operating or under construction, with future projects capable of generating more than 3,000 megawatts.
Elsewhere, Costa Rica is among the top five countries leading the use of renewable resources. Since 2014, the country’s energy has come from 99% renewable sources and it has run on 100% renewable energy for over two months, twice in the past two years.