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Poland: Energa envisages EDF heating plants, more coal projects
Energa is thinking about purchasing mostly coal-fired heating plants from French utility EDF and investing in local troubled coal mining company Kompania Weglowa, Poland's No.4 utility stated on Tuesday.
read more... 16/03/2016
Japan's Marubeni might construct coal power plant in Egypt
Japan's Marubeni Corp and Egypt's El Sewedy Electric have settled with Egypt's state-run power utility to conduct a feasibility study into the building of a coal-fired electricity plant in Egypt.
read more... 03/03/2016
Poland will develop geothermal energy since wind farms spoil landscape
Poland, under pressure from the EU to reduce its utilization of extremely polluting coal, will develop geothermal energy resources rather than wind farms which destroy the landscape, as stated by its environment minister on Wednesday.
read more... 25/02/2016
Britain's wholesale gas will continue to be cheap this year
British utilities are likely to benefit from low wholesale gas prices this summer and beyond even if electricity firms chose to do a lot more switching from coal to gas to fuel their plants.
read more... 27/01/2016
Germany must set out an ambitious plan for coal exit
Germany has to fast-track the country’s coal exit, according to a call by Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks.
read more... 21/01/2016