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Düsseldorf (dpa) - The energy group Uniper wants to expand its electricity generation with renewable energies.
By the year 2025, a solar and wind energy capacity of 1 gigawatt is to be built, as Uniper announced on Thursday.
Another 3 gigawatts are to be added in the following years.
In-house power generation with renewable energies is necessary in order to be able to grow successfully in the markets for so-called green hydrogen.
“Green” hydrogen is obtained exclusively from renewable energy.
It can serve as a basis for fuels and fuels, for example to replace the use of coal, oil and natural gas in industry and transport.
The company spun off from the Eon Group, which is now 75 percent owned by the Finnish energy supplier Fortum, is one of the largest coal-fired electricity producers in Europe.
Uniper operates the Datteln 4 hard coal power plant, which went online this year. However, the Düsseldorf-based company also owns numerous hydropower plants.
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With the exception of Datteln 4, Uniper plans to gradually shut down its other coal-fired power plants in Germany by 2025.
The first system will go offline at the end of the year.
The free power plant site could be used to generate green electricity, according to Uniper.
As a dowry, Uniper had received large areas from Eon that could now be used for generating green electricity.
Fortum and Uniper presented a joint strategy for the first time on Thursday.
The former Uniper managers had long resisted a takeover by the Finns.
Now we want to work together to be climate-neutral in the entire group by 2050 at the latest and in European electricity generation by 2035 at the latest.
As an intermediate step, the generation capacity from coal-fired power plants should be reduced to less than half by the end of 2025, said Fortum President Markus Rauramo according to the announcement.
The environmental organization Urgewalt criticized the announcements as disappointing.
Hardly anything is changing on the dangerous and climate-damaging path of the group and its German subsidiary Uniper.
Fortum is not committed to a coal phase-out in 2030, as would be necessary for compliance with the Paris Agreement.
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