By Akin Nazli in Belgrade Turkey has overtaken Germany to become Europe’s top user of coal in the production of electricity. It produced 36 TWh of such power in January-April, according to data from energy think tank Ember. The figures, first reported by Reuters, on May 21 showed Germany in second place with 35 TWh. Poland remained third with 31 TWh. bne IntelliNews in March told how Turkey had pushed Poland into third place, with our story “Cheap coal from Putin fires Turkey up the dirty power generation league.” Charts by Reuters. In 4M24, Turkey’s coal-fired power generation actually contra…
