14/09/2020 (Agence Europe) – In 2018, 8.9% of the total gross electricity produced in the European Union was based on lignite, almost equal to the amount of electricity produced from other bituminous coals (9.3%) and more than double that produced by photovoltaic solar energy (3.8%), according to the latest data from Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office, published on Monday 14 September. According to this data, nine Member States mine lignite for the production of electricity and heat...