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The European Commission's proposal to not allow capacity support schemes for incentivising new power plants that emit over 550 grammes of CO2 per kWh will lead to additional abatement costs for the

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Member states can still decide to have coal power plants. However, they cannot have capacity mechanisms, as they are a subsidy and this goes against the policy of the EU, said the Commissioner for

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Next year’s overhaul of unit 6 of Slovenia’s Šoštanj thermal power plant (TPP) will take place from 7 May to 2 July 2018. During this time, only unit 4 will be in operation, as unit 5 is

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A cessation of operations of Slovenia’s Šoštanj thermal power plant (TPP) would cause a 4.1 TWh reduction in the country’s electricity production, increasing its import dependence. In this case,

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In the Raspotočje cave of the Zenica coal mine, which operates under Bosnia's largest state-owned power utility Elektroprivreda BiH, a wide-head mechanism and a transport system - a machine for the

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The coal mines of the largest power utility in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Elektroprivreda BiH, produced 478,374.92 tonnes of coal in August, which is 91.53% of the plan, and 9.15% more than in the

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A recent study by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) showed that countries in the Balkans have an even greater potential than West Germany for solar photovoltaic power generation

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The three-month deadline has passed and no agreement has yet been reached for a peaceful settlement of a EUR 100 million payment to Republika Srpska's Gacko Coal Mine and Thermal Power Plant (RiTE

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European utilities completely misjudged the prospects for new coal-fired generation between 2005 and 2008 and have since paid a significant price for this mistake. Write-downs of the major European

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Falling coal production in China and elsewhere led to global output dropping by 458 million tonnes in 2016. Meanwhile, global trade in natural gas increased last year, said the International Energy

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Global fossil fuel subsidies amounted to USD 4.9 trillion in 2013, growing to USD 5.3 trillion in 2015, according to a study published in the World Development journal. In both years fossil fuel

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The Serbian government and the World Bank will complete a draft plan for restructuring of the state-owned coal mining company Resavica by the end of this year, said the Serbian Minister of Mining and