Marking its fifth anniversary in 2022, the Alliance published Powering Past Coal – The state of global action to end emissions from coal power – a report featuring thirteen case studies illustrating the practical choices, pathways, and strategies pursued by diverse PPCA members to end emissions from coal power for good. Drawn from OECD and non-OECD countries within the PPCA’s growing membership, these case studies spanned policy, social, technical, and financial solutions.
Together they showcased the action being taken by PPCA members to overcome the system challenges that can arise when countries accelerate coal phase-out, modernise electricity grids, shift investments towards clean energy, and drive a just transition creating new clean energy jobs.
The 13 case studies in the new report Powering Past Coal include:
- Policy solutions – national and sub-national efforts to decarbonise power generation and diversify the energy system using legislation supported by key stakeholders, including swift coal phase-out in the UK, national and regional policy alignment in Canada, accelerating coal exit in Chile, and subnational action in South Korea.
- Social solutions – a better future for all through the pursuit of a just transition to clean energy to advance and accelerate coal phase-out in Alberta, Germany and Poland.
- Finance and investment solutions – Development of transition mechanisms to speed up the retirement of coal power plants in New Mexico, efforts to encourage French financial institutions to adopt science-based timeframes to phase coal out of investment portfolios and shift to clean energy, and new global investment funds supporting accelerated coal transition in non-OECD countries.
- Technical solutions – the transformation of a Danish oil and gas company into a green energy pioneer, and the development of reliable, flexible, affordable, accessible and emissions free electricity grids to replace centralised fossil fuel infrastructure in Germany and the UK.