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22 March 2007 - Chancellor Angela Merkel has come out in support for the construction of 26 coal-fired power plants, despite her strong environmental stance, in report published in Germany.
Merkel says the plants would create thousands of jobs and spur $40bn in German investment. They would also replace older, dirtier plants.
The plants proposed by Germany's four major utilities - Vattenfall, RWE, E.ON and Energie Baden-Wuerttemberg - would generate large amounts of so-called greenhouse gases, despite Germany's pledge to reduce its carbon-dioxide emissions 40 per cent by 2020, Der Spiegel reported.
One Vattenfall plant would burn up 2m tons of inexpensive Polish coal a year to provide 800 MW of electricity and 600 MW of heat, the magazine said. A black coal plant typically emits 949 grams of carbon dioxide per kWh. Lignite, or brown coal, emits 1153 grams.
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