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As members of the coal exit commission debate a concrete timetable for Germany to exit the fossil fuel, companies and researchers have proposed alternative energy projects for the country鈥檚 mining regions. Swedish Vattenfall and German BayWa have proposed putting large-scale wind and solar PV parks in closed lignite mines, . BayWa CEO Klaus Josef Lutz told the newspaper his company would be 鈥渃apable of implementing solar and wind projects at power plant scale in Germany from 2020 onward 鈥� and at market economy conditions, without any subsidy.鈥� In the Lusatia region alone, this could be 40 gigawatt capacity, he said. The Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy on using former lignite mines for pumped storage facilities.

Germany has three active lignite mining regions, whose future prospects have been front and centre in the discussions of the government appointed coal exit commission.