Vattenfall is considering converting its German coal-fired power stations to use fuels including gas or biomass as utility companies in the country brace for a government deadline for phasing out coal altogether. A spreader is seen inside the coal power plant Scholven of German energy utility company Uniper in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, September 28, 2018. REUTERS/Thilo Schmuelgen Graphic: Dirty addiction – tmsnrt.rs/2R73qjo The end of coal is the latest major challenge power firms face in Germany, whose energy transformation, or “Energiewende”, has already included a rushed exit from nuclear power and a costly expansion of solar and wind capacity. Vattenfall corporate.vattenfall.com , owned by the Swedish state, operates 2.9 gigawatts (GW) of coal-fired power stations in Germany, including the 1.7 GW Moorburg site that only opened three years ago and supplies 80 percent of Hamburg’s electricity. The way German power station operators deal with their coal assets […]