وظل هذا الاتجاه على أشده في البلدان التي تمر اقتصاداتها بمرحلة انتقال (مثلا كرواتيا، التي تقوم فيها شركة الكهرباء الوطنية ببناء وحدات جديدة عالية الكفاءة لتوليد الطاقة الحرارية الكهربائية بالغاز الطبيعي).
This trend remained strongest in the EITs, (e.g. Croatia, where the national electricity company is constructing new, high-efficiency CHP units, fuelled by natural gas) The Czech State Environmental Fund provided subsidies for switching from coal to gas, that which helped to reduce by 75-80 per cent between 1990 and 1999 the number of furnaces in the range of 0.2-5 MW range that continue to burn brown coal by 75- per cent, between 1990 and In Australia, the Queensland government will require electricity retailers to source 15 per cent per cent of their supply from gas-fired or renewable power generation, a measure that is expected to reduce GHG emissions through fuel- switching from coal.