Meanwhile, power companies such as Vattenfall Europe are working on developing cleaner thermal plants.
So do Vattenfall of Sweden, which operates two, and EnBW, which runs four.
Vattenfall, a Swedish nuclear utility, is investing in technology to remove carbon from its newish coal plants in eastern Germany and Poland.
The European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) project is a joint venture by utility company Vattenfall, engineering firm Technip and Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group (Areg).
To the European competition authorities, it is arguing that the closure of private-sector nuclear plants unfairly boosts the dominant market position of the state-owned utility, Vattenfall.
Mentions James Hansen, the Stern Review, and the Vattenfall report.
Vattenfall said it was having to "prioritise its investments".
He was forced to drop out of the Tour de France in July because of a wrist injury but successfully defended his title in the Vattenfall Cyclassics one-day race in Germany on 15 August.
The City of Stockholm is adding 20 EVs to its fleet each year, and it coordinated, with utility Vattenfall, a contract with six automakers under which 296 cities, county councils, and companies will purchase 850 electric cars and 400 electric trucks and vans each year.
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It will increase the amount of energy generated from offshore wind in the UK by one third to 1, 314MW. Opened in September, the Thanet wind-farm was built by the Swedish Vattenfall energy company, and increases the number of large-scale offshore British turbines to 436, to be compared with 2, 640 based on land.
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