I think there was a post on HN about a year ago saying that Germany has a weird law or policy that says it can only produce renewable power for internal use, an

I think there was a post on HN about a year ago saying that Germany has a weird law or policy that says it can only produce renewable power for internal use, and for export it uses coal. I think this is only a political issue, because no one wants to tackle it when elections are this year. Otherwise, the phasing-out of coal in Europe is looking pretty good, I'd say - they're looking to close the most polluting plants in Europe by 2031: http://climateanalytics.org/files/coalphaseouteu-regulator.gif http://climateanalytics.org/files/coalphaseouteu-regulator.g...