Greenhouse gas emissions from EU power plants declined more sharply in 2019 than in any year since at least 1990, German think-tank Agora Energiewende said Wednesday. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now Emissions fell by 120 million mt, a decrease of 12% on 2018, it said in a joint report with Sandbag on EU power generation. The key reason was a collapse in coal generation, down 24% or 149.5 TWh on the year across the EU, while the share of renewable electricity increased to 34.6%, it said. “For the first time, wind and solar power plants thus delivered more electricity than coal-fired power plants [across the EU],” the report’s authors said. Falling generation […]