Coal outages are already a primary driver of power outage warnings. We need to bring on new sources of energy right now – like solar and wind, backed by big batteries – before the lights go out and ...

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More than half Australia’s coal-fired power fleet has been operating longer than two-fifths of Australians have been alive, a new study has found, with many plants becoming increasingly unstable ...

PARIS -Solar power overtook coal in electricity production in the European Union for the first time in 2024, with the share of renewables rising to almost half the bloc’s power sector ...

Solar provided more power than coal did to EU countries for the first time last year, marking a new milestone in the unstoppable rise of renewables. The sunlight-soaking renewable generated 11 per ...

Australia’s coal-fired power stations are outdated, unreliable and must be replaced soon, with over sixty per cent of generating capacity more than 40 years old and prone to breaking down when we need ...

Fresh warnings Australia's coal generation fleet is ageing and becoming less reliable come as the federal government dials up its clean energy commitment with a $2 billion top-up for the national ...

The EU power sector is undergoing a deep transformation spurred on by the European Green Deal. Solar generation (11%) overtook coal (10%) for the first time in 2024, as wind (17%) generated more ...

in Queensland in May 2021 after an explosion at Callide coal power plant; and in May last year when unplanned outages at Eraring and Vales Point coal generators contributed to high prices in NSW.

After Europe’s biggest economy shut its last nuclear plant in 2023, its power generation margin has shrunk. The coal plants are there to help keep the lights on if needed and can be started up ...

Without alternatives for backup generation to secure power supply at peak demand and low wind speeds, coal plants could be needed into the 2030s, too, Christoph Mueller, chief executive at German ...

(Bloomberg) — Germany may need to keep its fleet of mothballed coal-fired stations available for longer than expected as a drive to build new gas plants is severely behind schedule, grid operator ...