Greece to Increase Coal-Fired Energy Production to Cut Gas Needs
- Premier signals more coal mining, use in power generation
- Measure is short-term response to spiraling gas prices
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Greece will boost power output from lignite coal over the next two years in a short-term measure to reduce the country’s dependence on expensive natural gas.
While normally coal is the more costly fuel for power production, the war in Ukraine has supercharged gas prices and temporarily made coal more cost-effective, according to a transcript of comments by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Wednesday.