brown coal
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Western Macedonia has for decades been the centre of Greece's brown coal mining industry that fed its lignite-fired power stations.
From Barron's ● Dec. 27, 2025
Poland is taking strides in embracing renewable energy, but gets almost 70% of its energy from black and brown coal.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2023
Lignite, or brown coal, the only fossil fuel that is still mined in Germany, is burned to generate power.
From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2022
According to the filing, Enkraft is asking management to “prepare draft agreements or plans corresponding reports for the lawful spin-off” of RWE’s subsidiary RWE Power AG, which includes the utility’s brown coal activities.
From Reuters ● Mar. 22, 2022
You will probably be smoked out of your position, for a cheap and nasty variety of brown coal is used by local industries.
From From a Terrace in Prague by Baker, Lieut.-Col. B. Granville
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