Denmark aiming to be coal free by 2025

It's lights out for coal in Denmark, as they now have put forward their plan to go coal free by five years to 2025 instead of 2030.

Denmark is looking into how the country can stop using coal as an energy supply by 2025, the Climate and Energy Minister Rasmus Helveg Petersen said on Wednesday (29 October). The Scandinavian country's centre-left government had previously aimed at being coal-independent by 2030. 

Petersen said he has asked government officials to look into what Denmark can do in order to phase out the use of coal already in ten years time. 

"Of course this is something we will do together with the industry. I don't know how we can reach this goal, but I would like to find out if we, for example, can forbid using coal," Petersen told Danish broadcaster DR. 

"It would benefit the climate and it would be a very, very good signal to send," he said. 

Today, 20% of Denmark's energy supply comes from coal, 40% comes from oil and gas, while another 30% comes from wind energy. The country wants wind energy to make up 50% of the overall power supply by 2020. Denmark is the only country in the EU which is a net exporter of energy. more

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