Chairman of Shell Germany sees great potential for natural gas
Hamburger Abendblatt
Chairman of the Shell Companies in Germany Stijn van Els sees great potential for natural gas in the German power and transport sectors, he told Hamburger Abendblatt in an interview. 鈥淯sing natural gas for electricity generation leads to half the amount of CO鈧� emissions as from coal power plants. With this in mind, it is downright paradoxical that hard coal and lignite continue to dominate the German power sector at significantly more than 40 percent, and more money is spent every year on subsidies for renewable power generation while CO鈧� emissions stagnate,鈥� van Els said.
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