{"id":17460,"date":"2017-12-11T06:50:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T20:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=17460"},"modified":"2017-12-11T06:50:58","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T20:20:58","slug":"coal-death-spiral-eu-mb0355","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/coal-death-spiral-eu-mb0355\/","title":{"rendered":"Lignite Of The Living Dead &#8211; EU Coal Power In Death Spiral"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17462\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17462\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17462\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/coal-power-eu.jpg\" alt=\"Coal fired electricity generation in the EU\" width=\"700\" height=\"445\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17462\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: CarbonTracker<\/p><\/div>\n<p>54% of Europe\u2019s coal fired power plants are already running at a loss and within 13 years, just about all of them are likely to meet the same fate says a new report.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>CarbonTracker says companies expecting to operate their coal units beyond 2030 are putting their assets on a collision course with the Paris Agreement and the mega-trends of renewable energy, battery storage and demand response.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, coal power represents 18% of total operating capacity and 26% of total generation in the European Union. However, its days are numbered and by bailing out sooner rather than later, electricity utilities could collectively avoid losses of \u20ac22 billion (around AUD $34.46 billion).<\/p>\n<p>The forecast based on an analysis by CarbonTracker of a coal phase-out in Europe consistent with the goal of the Paris Agreement<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Lignite Of The Living Dead&#8221; report states several factors will continue to undermine the economics of coal power in the EU, potentially making the fossil fuel based electricity generators &#8220;unusable&#8221; by 2030 &#8211; they would become stranded assets.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe changing economics of renewables, as well as air pollution policy and rising carbon prices, has put EU coal power in a death spiral,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carbontracker.org\/54-eu-coal-power-loss-making\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Matt Gray, Carbon Tracker analyst and report co-author. &#8221; Utilities can\u2019t do much to stop this other than drop coal or lobby governments and hope they will bail them out.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>CarbonTracker says many utilities could be caught with their pants down. At this point, 27% of operating coal units in the EU are planning to close before 2030, but building new onshore wind and solar power projects will be more cost-effective than operating existing coal power stations by 2024 and 2027 respectively.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17463\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/wind-coal-solar.png\" alt=\"Wind and solar power vs. coal\" width=\"700\" height=\"441\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Utilities with exposure to coal power in the EU are at a strategic crossroads: continue to invest in coal and hope governments will allow rent-seeking in the form of capacity and retirement payments, or divest and prepare for a low carbon future,&#8221; says CarbonTracker.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ongoing capacity market payments, which are paid to ensure adequate generation resources are available to meet demand for electricity at all times, can&#8217;t be relied upon. The European Commission has proposed to prohibit coal from receiving capacity market payments by 2025.<\/p>\n<p>As for compensation for early closure, CarbonTracker points to the Netherlands, where the government has implemented a carbon price and avoided paying compensation to asset owners.<\/p>\n<p>That leaves lobbying to avoid regulations &#8211; something that could easily backfire on the sector given public sentiment and the Paris Agreement.<\/p>\n<p>More from the Lignite Of The Living Dead report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carbontracker.org\/reports\/lignite-living-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">can be viewed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>54% of Europe\u2019s coal fired power plants are already running at a loss and within 13 years, just about all of them are likely to meet the same fate says a new report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":17462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-battery-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lignite Of The Living Dead - EU Coal Power In Death Spiral<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"54% of Europe\u2019s coal fired power plants are already running at a loss and within 13 years, just about all of them are likely to meet the same fate.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/coal-death-spiral-eu-mb0355\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lignite Of The Living Dead - EU Coal Power In Death Spiral\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"54% of Europe\u2019s coal fired power plants are already running at a loss and within 13 years, just about all of them are likely to meet the same fate.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/coal-death-spiral-eu-mb0355\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SolarQuotes Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SolarQuotes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-12-10T20:20:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/coal-power-eu.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"700\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"445\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael Bloch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/coal-death-spiral-eu-mb0355\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/coal-death-spiral-eu-mb0355\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"Lignite Of The Living Dead &#8211; 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