State-controlled Verbund, Austria's biggest utility and most valuable company, was ordered late on Sunday to prepare its mothballed Mellach coal-fired station for operation. The plant, 200km south of Vienna, was shut two years ago as Austria became only the second European country to eliminate coal entirely from its electricity grid.
Austria joins other European nations, including France, Germany and Britain, in extending the life of coal-fired power following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Russia is reducing natural gas shipments to the Alpine country, where storage depots contain just 39 per cent of Austria's annual needs.
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