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This report by Ember analyzes the performance of coal-fired power plants in Türkiye, concluding that domestic coal plants fail to provide reliable baseload electricity due to low efficiency, high failure rates, and low capacity factors. The study highlights that coal generation reached a record 118 TWh in 2023, contributing 20% of the country's total emissions, and argues for an accelerated transition to renewable energy to meet climate targets and reduce economic losses.

This report by Ember argues that Germany significantly underreports methane emissions from its coal mining sector due to an outdated and unverified single emission factor from 1989. The analysis suggests that actual emissions could be 28 to 220 times higher than official figures, urging an urgent update to monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) frameworks ahead of the new EU Methane Regulation.

An analysis of 2022 EU Emissions Trading System (EU-ETS) data reveals that the ten largest emitters are all coal power plants, with a high concentration of emissions in Germany and Poland. While long-term trends show a decline in coal power emissions, 2022 saw a 6% increase compared to 2021 due to the energy crisis, nuclear outages, and droughts.

This report by Ember analyses 2022 emissions data from the EU’s Emissions Trading System (EU-ETS), focusing on the power sector. It identifies a small number of coal power plants and utilities that dominate emissions in Europe, noting a temporary 3% increase in power sector emissions in 2022 driven by the energy crisis, despite a long-term downward trend in coal use.

Ember analyzed the formula used by Germany's Ministry of Economics (BMWi) to calculate €4.35 billion in compensation payments for utilities RWE and LEAG for the early closure of lignite power plants. The analysis concludes that the government's assumptions systematically overvalue the payments, suggesting that adjusting these assumptions could reduce the total compensation to as little as €343 million.

This report by Ember (published by Sandbag) analyzes the collapse of lignite profitability in Germany during 2019. It argues that German lignite plants, particularly those built before 1990, have become loss-making due to rising carbon prices and falling power prices, suggesting that the German government should push for early closures with minimal compensation.