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Spain. The South of Europe shows us what a coal exit without generous palliative measures on the part of the state looks like: in Spain, the end of climate-damaging energy production is taking place much more quietly, but above all much more quickly. Seven of Spain's 15 coal-fired power stations were taken off the grid at the end of last month.

All but two of operators of the remaining plants have already applied for decommissioning. Greenpeace Spain assumes that no coal-fired power plants will be on the grid by 2025 at the latest. This would mean that the Iberians would be much quicker than Germany, which does not want to shut down its last coal-fired power station until 2038.

Posted in The Mix

Interview - The Regenerative Decade

EUROSOLAR's president Peter Droege, interviewed by Frank Farenski, Editor-in-Chief of Leben mit der Energiewende TV, explains the Ten-Point Plan leading to an Regenerative Earth decade.

Posted in EUROSOLAR TIMES

"We are wasting precious time with angled advocacy patterns"

Interview with Dörte Fouquet, published in Solarzeitalter 1-2020

With the Communication from the Commission to the Parliament, the European Council, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions of 11.12.2019, the European Commission presented its proposal, the European "Green Deal".

Posted in Eurotrip

International Renewable Energy Storage Web Summit – IRES 2020

Special times require special measures. As organizers of the annual IRES conference, we were obliged to think of a new concept to keep all our participants safe and sound while creating a space for scientific exchange and discussion. Therefore, for the first time in its history, the traditional International Renewable Energy Storage Conference (IRES) took place online as a web summit. Nearly 50 scientists from all over the world presented their latest research results on the storage of renewable energies. This event also marked EUROSOLARs preparations for its next twin conference: the IRES 2021 in partnership with Energy Storage Europe at Messe Düsseldorf, 16-18 March 2021.

Posted in The Science Stuff