2023-06-27 04:03:58
West Virginia – What comes after the coal?
Thursday, June 29, 2023, 8:33 p.m. to 9 p.m., NDR Info
A broadcast by Julia Kastein, ARD Washington
The High-Wall Eco-Farm was established on the site of the former Eksdale opencast mine.
An “energy transition” is also taking place in the USA: the Biden government wants to accelerate the phase-out of fossil fuels. Coal should be over by 2035 if possible. Instead, solar parks, CO2 storage and wind power plants are to be built.
This is a huge change, especially for the people of the state of West Virginia. For more than 100 years they have lived in the Appalachian Mountains from and with the “black gold”. West Virginia is the second largest supplier of coal in the United States after Wyoming and still produces 90 percent of its electricity from coal. Although the phase-out is to be supported with billions in funding, people can hardly imagine a future without coal. The feature tells how difficult it is to replace coal: as an energy source, as a center of life and as an ’employer’.
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