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“DONG Energy is the energy company in Europe which has come the furthest in the transition to renewable energy, and 2016 was yet another important milestone.”

Thomas Thune Andersen, Chairman 2017 DONG Energy Annual report 2016 Summary (DONG Energy) archived copy

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DONG Energy is the energy company in Europe that has come furthest in the transition to renewable energy.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

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Reasoning

Superlative on 'furthest in transition' has no defined metric.

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Ørsted, “DONG Energy is the energy company in Europe that has come furthest in the transition to renewable energy.” (said 2017). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_f33ca28d530e, method 0.1.0+7831dd9d, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_f33ca28d530e

This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.

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