Italy Proposes Phasing Out Coal Power Plants By 2025 (reuters.com)

Posted by BeauHD on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @02:05PM from the chopping-block dept.

Italy is the next country to phase out coal. According to Reuters, the country has set its sights on phasing out coal power plants by 2025. From the report: Italy's biggest utility Enel has said it will not invest in new coal-fired power plants. The new energy strategy, still under discussion, aims to reach the goal of 27 percent of gross overall energy consumption from renewable sources by 2030, the document showed. The strategy, which should be approved by the government at the beginning of November, is also looking to speed up the introduction of vehicles powered by alternative fuels. It aims to raise the number of electric charging stations to 19,000 by 2020.

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Re:Why is this necessary? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-24 15:27 · Score: 2, Funny

If solar and wind are as cheap without subsidies as recent stories claim, why do countries need to set targets like this?...Why else would the government need to intervene?

In case the Italians vote in a disaster like Trump who starts saying things like "Beieve me, we're going to revive the coal industry like you've never seen!" They will at least have some legal precedent in place to help stave off the lunacy.