German Power for Next Year Falls to Two-Week Low as Coal Slides

Bloomberg.com reports that German delivery for electricity fell along with the price of coal.

The story is quoted as saying:

Hard coal dropped 2.6 percent to $116.90 a metric ton today. The fuel accounted for 18 percent of Germany’s power generation in 2009 and traded as high as $123 on Dec. 30. The country also gets electricity from lignite, or brown coal, as well as from nuclear plants and wind and solar power.

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