China fires up new coal power plant in spite of calls for cuts
China, under fire for approving new coal power stations as other countries try to curb greenhouse gases, has completed the…
Minister of Energy: Restructuring plan for Oltenia Energy Complex could be approved in January
The restructuring plan for the Oltenia Energy Complex is expected to be approved by the European Commission in January 2022,…
IEA: Coal use reach record-high in spite of emission reduction commitments
Rising consumption in China, India and the United States could bring coal-fired power plants to a new all-time high this…
Energy industry production prices rose by almost 75% in October
Romanian industrial production prices (domestic market and foreign market) increased by 26.8% in October compared to the same month of…
Minister of Energy: A Norwegian company wants to invest 800 mln. euro in Romania
A Norwegian company wants to invest 800 million euros in Romania in the production capacity of a fuel that can…
Coal production increased by 20.8% in the first nine months of 2021
Romania’s net coal production totaled, in the first nine months of this year, 2.404 million tons of oil equivalent, being…
CE Oltenia expects restructuring plan to be approved by European Commission in January 2022
European Commission could approve the restructuring plan of the Oltenia Energy Complex in January 2022, after the company will prove…
Czech Republic considers the new Polish proposal on the Turow mine unacceptable
The Czech Republic has received a new proposal from Poland to resolve the dispute over the lignite mine in the…
2 weeks for investors interested in CE Oltenia projects
CE Oltenia entered the binding offers stage for the selection of investors interested in setting up joint ventures in order…
Coal production increased by almost 30% in the first eight months of 2021
Romania’s net coal production totaled 2.118 million tons of oil equivalent (toe) in the first eight months of this year,…
Norwegian company Arbaflame will deliver pellets to replace coal at CET Paroșeni
Minister of Energy, Virgil Popescu and Bjorn H. Knappskog, General Manager of Arbaflame, signed a letter of intent on Tuesday…
The 12 small modular reactors will successfully replace coal-fired power plants
US President’s Special Representative on Climate Affairs John Kerry and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis have announced Romania’s intention to build…
EU climate and infrastructure agency admits end of fossil fuel projects still far away
The director of CINEA, a recently established EU agency managing €55 billion in EU funding for clean energy and transport,…
Bulgarian miners are protesting against the closure of coal-fired units
About 1,000 miners and workers at Bulgaria’s largest coal-fired power plant marched on the streets of Sofia on Wednesday to…
RWEA: RenewAcad will convert 8,000 miners into technicians for the renewables industry
The Romanian Wind Energy Association (RWEA) has officially inaugurated RenewAcad, a center through which it intends to reconvert thousands of…
Greece could phase-out coal-fired power plants earlier
Greece is making faster-than-expected progress on abandoning coal-fired power plants, with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ government stepping up efforts to…
Chirițoiu: High energy prices will persist as long as we use coal
Electricity prices will remain high in Romania for at least the next 4-5 years, as long as we use coal…
Poland refuses to halt Turow coal mine despite 500,000 euro daily penalty
Poland vowed to keep its disputed Turow coal mine running despite being hit with an order to pay a 500,000…
European authorities are announcing measures to reduce energy bills
Energy prices continue to rise and reach record levels as a result of rising gas prices and green certificate prices,…
Romania submitted to the EIB the first projects from the Modernization Fund; CE Oltenia and Transelectrica are the beneficiaries
The Ministry of Energy sent on Tuesday, September 14, to the European Investment Bank the first applications for financing from…
Bankwatch: Coal power plants in Western Balkans kill nearly 19,000 in Europe in the past three years
An estimated 19,000 people have died in the past three years as a result of air pollution from lignite power…
CE Oltenia could not complete the restructuring plan without state aid
Oltenia Energy Complex (CE Oltenia) could not be able to complete the restructuring plan until 2026, without state aid, because…
Bankwatch: Romania may still have a coal-fired capacity of 2,100 MW in 2030
In 2020, the installed capacity of coal in the Romanian energy system reached 4,590 MW in eight thermal power plants,…