Also interesting to note is that the UK and Germany top a list of the EU’s most polluting coal-fired power stations. These were the findings from a recent report by environmental campaigners. The report called "Europe’s dirty 30" looks at CO2 emissions from coal power plants in the EU.

From the report:

"Germany and the UK are the self-declared climate champions of the EU. However, Germany uses more coal to generate electricity than any other EU country, while the UK comes third in absolute coal consumption for power after Poland;"

Here's the 10 most co2-polluting thermal power plants in the EU according to the report

  1. Bełchatów, Poland
  2. Neurath, Germany
  3. Niederaussem, Germany
  4. Jänschwalde, Germany
  5. Boxberg, Germany
  6. Drax, United Kingdom
  7. Weisweiler, Germany
  8. Agios Dimitrios, Greece
  9. Brindisi Sud, Italy
  10. Lippendorf, Germany

The full ranking of 30 power plants is in the following report (3.1 mb) http://awsassets.panda.org/downloads/dirty_30_report_finale....

Or you can read the summary from this Guardian report http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/22/germany-u...

Electricity exports from Germany are on an all-time high though.

Ironic, or just a sad indictment of populist policies when it comes to energy supply overruling the glaringly obvious :|

If you look at the French data, there is a lot of solar in the mix there.