The Berlin House of Representatives (Berliner Abgeordnetenhaus) has amended the Berliner Energiewendegesetz (EWG) and has decided to ban hard coal-fired power generation on the city territory by 2030 in order to reduce CO2 emissions. The city already stopped using lignite (Braunkohle) for power production a few months ago but now plans to shut down the three remaining hard coal-fired (Steinkohle) facilities.
This measure automatically implies the closure of the three last coal-fired plants on its territory, which are all owned and operated by Vattenfall. They are namely: the 140 MWe Moabit Combined heat and power (CHP), the 564 MWe Reuter West CHP plant and the 160 MWe Reuter Combined heat and power (CHP) facilities.
Vattenfall's 185 MW Klingenberg CHP was Berlin's last lignite-fired plant and stopped to burn lignite back in May 2017. Vattenfall only continued to use its gas-fired units with a combined capacity of 164 MWe.
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