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Verbund: gas and coal plants to be mothballed or closed
Gas and coal-fired plants in Austria and France would be mothballed or closed by the Austrian utility Verbund after a year spent analyzing its alternatives, due to their unprofitability.
read more... 15/05/2014
Vattenfall to close carbon capture R&D
Vattenfall stated on Tuesday it was closing research and development in carbon capture for coal power and reduce it in domains such as offshore wind power in a move that would cut over 40 jobs across the state-owned energy group.
read more... 07/05/2014
Czech Cabinet approves deal for NWR coal mine to remain open
The Czech government has approved an accord consenting New World Resources to keep on running its unprofitable Paskov hard coal mine to end-2017, which would maintain 1,800 jobs, according to Industry Minister Jan Mladek.
read more... 29/04/2014
Chinese conglomerate puts single offer for Bosnia’s 450 MW coal-fired unit
The single bidder in the project to construct a coal-fired power generation unit of 450 megawatts in Bosnia remained a Chinese group, just after Hitachi retreated from the competition, as stated on Tuesday by Bosnia's power utility EPBiH.
read more... 23/04/2014
Poland: agreement of $1.5 billion signed by Tauron for its new coal-fired unit
The No.2 utility Tauron in Poland inked a contract on Thursday with builders Rafako and Mostostal Warszawa to construct a hard coal-fired unit with a capacity of 910 megawatt at its Jaworzno plant, as stated by the companies.
read more... 18/04/2014