Carbon pricing in Europe: where the UK and France leads, will Germany follow?
This post is by Matthew Duhan, adviser at Global Counsel. It first appeared on Global Counsel’s blog.
On Monday 9 May 2016 at 23:10 something remarkable happened. For the first time since 1882 coal made no contribution to UK electricity generation. At the same moment, Germany, Europe’s leader in renewable energy and home to the Energiewende (‘energy transition’), was generating three quarters of its electricity from a mixture of hard coal and even more polluting lignite (see graph below). Read more