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Italy's coal market has overcome the crisis.
Italy's imports of steam coal for power generation is expected to increase by 3% in 2010, while imports of coal for producing steel will increase by 37%, thanks to a recovery in industrial demand.
read more... 22/11/2010
Czech power group CEZ to sell 300 MW contracts annually.
Czech power group CEZ is in negotiations for long-term contracts with investment banks concerning the pre-sale of its electricity output coming from coal-fired power plants.
read more... 19/11/2010
EU's plan to reduce coal consumption and CO2 emissions
Europe's energy chief will publicly announce this week his project for huge new gas pipelines, so called "electricity highways" and another project for 8,000 km of pipes for transporting and burying greenhouse gases.
read more... 16/11/2010
South Africa seeks coal plant alternative.
South Africa wants to reduce the importance of coal in the country, which accounts for almost all of its electricity supply, to 48 percent.
read more... 11/10/2010
Alpiq to construct a new block in Bosnia power plant
Elektroprivreda BiH (EPBiH), the state owned company in the energy sector of Bosnia, invited in March a few investors to examine the possibility of building a new block at the coal power plant in Tuzla, of a capacity of 450 MW, in a project worth 1.1 billion USD.
read more... 22/09/2010