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How Spain killed off its coal industry | Olive Press TV Roundup Jan 3-10

Coal-powered electricity in Spain has fallen to just 5% of the national energy mix. Figures for 2019 show production has dropped dramatically from powering 90.6% of Spanish electricity in 2002. Swift government measures brought the end of the coal industry in late 2018, but one of Pedro Sanchez's major policies after sweeping to power intended to 'leave no one behind'. So how did they do it?

Joshua Parfitt

11 Jan, 2020 @ 17:42

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Joshua James Parfitt is the Costa Blanca correspondent for the Olive Press. He holds a gold-standard NCTJ in multimedia journalism from the award-winning News Associates in Twickenham. His work has been published in the Sunday Times, Esquire, the Mail on Sunday, the Daily Mail, the Sun, the Sun on Sunday, the Mirror, among others. He has appeared on BBC Breakfast to discuss devastating flooding in Spain, as well as making appearances on BBC and LBC radio stations. Contact me now: joshua@theolivepress.es or call +44 07960046259. Twitter: @jjparfitt

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