German finance minister casts doubt on 2030 coal exit

The Boxberg power station uses soft brown coal that is largely mined locally and is heavily polluting. Photo: John MACDOUGALL / AFP/FileGerman Finance Minister Christian Lindner on Wednesday called into question the government's aim to end coal use in Europe's largest

Lindner's comments threaten to deepen division within the ruling coalition between Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats, the Greens and the FDP, whereThe coal exit date is a plank in Germany's project to produce 80 percent of its electricity from renewables by 2030 and the coalition aims"ideally" to close all coal-fired plants within the same timeframe.Ukraine

The government brought mothballed coal plants back online to take the pressure off of gas-based electricity production, with the reactivated fleet available through March 2024.

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