German coal: back to the future
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What to do when you need reliable electricity generation *now*? Pay up, look big and burn fuel - if you can get it, and have something to burn it in. Renewables-obsessed governments are struggling to justify their blinkered 'net zero' policies now the energy chips are really down. All this with the COP26 climate talks looming.
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It's not just extra natural gas that Europe's struggling energy markets are finding tough to get from Russia, says Bloomberg (via MiningWeekly.com).

Power producers in the continent are being forced to ask Russia for more coal to ease an energy crunch with winter approaching and record-high gas prices denting profitability, according to officials at two Russian coal companies.

But they may be left stranded as any increase in exports from the country won't be substantial, they said.

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