05 March 2021
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Hungary is now the sixth European country to bring forward its coal phaseout plan, announcing that it will shut its last remaining coal plant in 2025. Meanwhile Poland says its first nuclear power unit will be built in Gdansk and the second one probably at the site of its Belchatów coal plant.
Poland might build a nuclear unit at the Belchatów coal plant site (Image: Wikipedia)
Hungarian President János Áder announced the country’s original plan to exit coal by 2030 at the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York in September 2019. He said Hungary would simultaneously increase its solar power capacity ten times and expand the capacity of its nuclear power plants. These efforts would mean that 90% of Hungary’s electricity production will be carbon-free within a decade, he said.
În Europa de Est, energie nepoluantă înseamnă centrale nucleare, iar combustibilii fosili, inclusiv cărbunele şi gazele, nu sunt nici de departe morţi
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Hungary brings forward coal exit from 2030 to 2025
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The country’s last coal power plant will be shut down in 2025 instead of 2030, Hungary’s secretary of state for EU affairs announced earlier this week.
“Our plan is to reach 90% carbon neutral electricity generation by 2030,” said Attila Steiner, on Tuesday (2 March) at the annual summit of the Powering Past Coal Alliance.
Budapest intends to achieve this by maintaining its existing nuclear generation capacity and increasing solar power to 6 GW – three times more than the country’s existing nuclear capacity, Steiner said.
“Thirdly, we would like to phase out the lignite-fired blocs of our last remaining coal-fired power plant by 2025 – the Matra power plant,” he added, saying Hungary will benefit from EU funding to retrain coal workers affected by the closure.