{"id":361130,"date":"2020-07-04T10:20:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T04:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=361130"},"modified":"2020-07-04T10:25:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T04:55:18","slug":"germany-to-become-first-major-economy-to-phase-out-coal-nuclear-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/germany-to-become-first-major-economy-to-phase-out-coal-nuclear-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany to become first major economy to phase out coal, nuclear power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German lawmakers have finalized the country&#8217;s long-awaited phase-out of coal as an energy source, backing a plan that environmental groups say isn&#8217;t ambitious enough and free marketeers criticise as a waste of taxpayers&#8217; money. <\/p>\n<p>Bills approved by both houses of parliament Friday envision shutting down the last coal-fired power plant by 2038 and spending some 40 billion euros ($45 billion) to help affected regions cope with the transition. <\/p>\n<p>The plan is part of Germany&#8217;s &#8216;energy transition&#8217; &#8211; an effort to wean Europe&#8217;s biggest economy off planet-warming fossil fuels and generate all of the country&#8217;s considerable energy needs from renewable sources. Achieving that goal is made harder than in comparable countries such as France and Britain because of Germany&#8217;s existing commitment to also phase out nuclear power by the end of 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German lawmakers have finalized the country&#8217;s long-awaited phase-out of coal as an energy source, backing a plan that environmental groups say isn&#8217;t ambitious enough and free marketeers criticise as a waste of taxpayers&#8217; money. Bills approved by both houses of parliament Friday envision shutting down the last coal-fired power plant by 2038 and spending some 40 billion euros ($45 billion) to help affected regions cope with the transition. The plan is part of Germany&#8217;s &#8216;energy transition&#8217; &#8211; an effort to wean Europe&#8217;s biggest economy off planet-warming fossil fuels and generate all of the country&#8217;s considerable energy needs from renewable sources. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}