{"id":1405,"date":"2019-02-20T13:11:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T12:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/energywatchgroup.org\/?p=1405"},"modified":"2023-12-17T15:36:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T14:36:47","slug":"energy-watch-group-newsletter-february-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/energywatchgroup.org\/wp\/energy-watch-group-newsletter-february-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal Exit in Germany |\u00a0Renewables vs. Coal\u00a0|\u00a0Studies on 100% Renewables\u00a0&#8211; February 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"null\">Energy Watch Group Newsletter &#8211; February 2019<\/h2>\n<p class=\"null\"><span class=\"mc-toc-title\">Dear Colleagues and\u00a0Friends,<\/span><\/p>\n<div>The long-awaited report by the <strong>German coal exit commission<\/strong> recommends that the country quits coal by 2038 the latest. Yet, Germany could phase out coal much earlier, scientists and businesses say. Meanwhile, <strong>renewables <\/strong>keep <strong>overtaking<\/strong> <strong>coal<\/strong> power generation, now also in the <strong>EU<\/strong>. A court in <strong>Australia<\/strong> has taken a landmark decision, rejecting an appeal to build a <strong>new coal mine<\/strong>. The <strong>Balearic Islands<\/strong> have agreed a new law, committing to achieve <strong>100% renewable energy <\/strong>by 2050. <strong>Spain<\/strong> tabled a plan to <strong>phase out nuclear power<\/strong> before 2035. Find these news as well as new <strong>global <\/strong>and <strong>regional studies on 100% renewable energy<\/strong> in our <a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/10869047a12c\/coal-exit-in-germany-renewables-vs-coal-studies-on-100-renewables\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February newsletter<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Energy Watch Group Newsletter &#8211; February 2019 Dear Colleagues and\u00a0Friends, The long-awaited report by the German coal exit commission recommends that the country quits coal by 2038 the latest. Yet, Germany could phase out coal much earlier, scientists and businesses say. Meanwhile, renewables keep overtaking coal power generation, now also in the EU. A court [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-1405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsletter-de","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/energywatchgroup.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/energywatchgroup.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/energywatchgroup.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energywatchgroup.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energywatchgroup.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/energywatchgroup.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5961,"href":"https:\/\/energywatchgroup.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions\/5961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energywatchgroup.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/energywatchgroup.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energywatchgroup.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energywatchgroup.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}