EU allocates 7.5 billion euro for mining areas and clean projects
With the European Green Pact (Green Deal), the European Commission will also allocate additional funds for the transition of carbon…
CE Oltenia holds second place among the top Romanian energy producers
In 2019, CE Oltenia produced approximately 12.4 TWh and delivered in the national system over 11 TWh, covering a market…
RWE can expect 2 bln. euro in lignite compensation
German utility RWE can expect around 2 billion euro ($2.22 billion) in compensation over government orders to turn off lignite…
IEA – Coal remains a major fuel, with 40% of generation
Bogdan Tudorache Coal remains a major fuel in global energy systems, accounting for almost 40% of electricity generation and more…
CE Hunedoara has enough coal to stock the winter
The coal stocks of the Hunedoara Energy Complex (CEH) amount to about 16,660 tonnes, of which 11,459 tonnes are located…
Climate activists up pressure on Siemens over Australian coal mine contract
Germany’s Fridays for Future student climate protest movement has increased the pressure on engineering conglomerate Siemens for its involvement in…
The government has launched a new program for the reconversion of miners in the Jiu Valley
The government launched on Wednesday a new program of projects regarding the reconversion of the Jiu Valley miners. About two…
The Minister of Economy has sent the Control Body to the Hunedoara Energy Complex
The Minister of Economy, Energy and Business Environment, Virgil Popescu, sent the Control Body to the Hunedoara Energy Complex and…
Uricani and Paroşeni mines enter “greening” program
The Uricani and Paroseni mines from the Jiu Valley are entering the greening program, after they were closed at the…
Boza: CE Oltenia will invest from its own sources 590 million lei in 2020
The Oltenia Energy Complex (CEO) has planned for this year investments of 590 million lei (about 123 million euro), from…
Pruna, USR: CE Oltenia and the Black Sea gas need urgent decisions
This year will mark the last chance for CE Oltenia to keep in the future a significant contribution to the…
Pruna, USR: Decision to subsidize EC Oltenia, a mistake
The Government’s decision granting state aid in the form of a 1.2 billion lei cash loan for the Oltenia Energy…
The government adopted the 1.2 bln. lei subsidy package for CE Oltenia
The Romanian Government approved on Monday, December 30, the Memorandum on the aid of the Oltenia Energy Complex (CEO) with…
Vast Resources starts drilling at Baita Plai mine in Romania
UK-based Vast Resources said on Monday that it has commenced the drilling programme at its Baita Plai polymetallic mine in…
Elcen: Bucharest City Hall refuses to pay in advance the gas needed to produce heat in the Capital
The City Hall of Bucharest (PMB) did not sign the agreement for the advance payment of the natural gas needed…
ELCEN plans three cogeneration projects in Bucharest, will start the procedures for CTE Sud
ELCEN wants to build three new cogeneration units, within the perimeters of the Bucharest, Grozavești and Progresul power stations, officials…
Drop in coal use pushes Germany closer to 2020 climate target
Germany has seen a second year of significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in 2019, as coal use fell by…
Impact and Veolia will supply 5,000 new homes with geothermal energy
Impact Trust, controlled by businessman Gheorghe Iaciu, plans to use geothermal energy to supply the following 5,000 apartments in the…
PMB will capitalize the municipal company Termoenergetica with about 23 million lei
The City Hall has made a budget rectification and reallocation that proposes the capitalization of the new company Termoenergetica with…
Targeted action needed to curb unrelenting global demand for coal power
The world’s consumption of coal as a power source will grow further until at least 2040 if no targeted action…
Elcen asks for a feasibility study for a new cogeneration power plant at CET Sud
Electrocentrale București, the Capital’s electricity and thermal energy producer, has launched in the Electronic Public Procurement System an announcement requesting…
Orban: Cogeneration tax was spent on car fleets and football teams
Prime Minister Ludovic Orban says that in Romania there are four forms of subsidizing thermal energy and shows that, although…