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Poland is eyeing creating state electricity conglomerate
Poland is eyeing merging its four biggest utilities into two companies to consolidate state-controlled power producers to help them compete with larger European rivals, while supporting the country’s dwindling coal industry, according to Treasury Minister Wlodzimierz Karpinski.
read more... 15/01/2015
Ukraine coal production drops by 22% in 2014, Eastern conflict
Ukrainian coal output dropped by 22 percent in 2014 to 65 million tonnes after the pro-Russian separatist disagreements interrupted mining operations in the country's eastern industrial centre, as stated by deputy energy minister Yuri Zukov on Friday.
read more... 12/01/2015
Russia will supply coal and power to Ukraine
Russia has agreed on a new agreement to provide coal and power to Ukraine, which is fighting with a lack of raw fuel for electricity plants because of a separatist clash in the industrial east, as stated by Russian officials on Saturday.
read more... 29/12/2014
Serbia: Kostolac electricity plant postpones restart of 348 MW unit again
The reconnection of a 348 megawatt unit to the grid at Serbia's Kostolac B coal-fired power plant, which was out of service for planned repairs on February 28, has been postponed again until December 27, as stated by a representative at the plant on Thursday.
read more... 29/12/2014
China will aid Serbia to construct a coal-fired power plant of 350 MW
Serbia and China will ink an agreement estimated at over $600 million next week to adjoin a new unit at the Kostolac coal-fired power plant, the first major investment in more than two decades in Serbia's old energy infrastructure, as stated by the plant's manager.
read more... 15/12/2014