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“The coal phase-out is, and will have to be, a reality in the Energy Community countries. This should put gas in a very comfortable position,” said Dirk Buschle from the Energy Community

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The Romanian government will allocate RON 110 million (EUR 22.57 million) in order to close two underground mining operations in the Jiu Valley – the Lonea and Lupeni mines. The closing process,

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A professional reconversion scheme for coal workers that was once billed as Romania’s most ambitious green jobs programme to date has fallen into disarray one year after its launch following the

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"The Romanian state-owned lignite-based electricity producer Oltenia Energy Complex (OEC), which is planning to restructure and decarbonise part of its installed capacity from coal to gas, will not

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The third planned preventative overhaul this year of the 300 MW Stanari thermal power plant (TPP) in Republika Srpska will begin on 26 September, which, according to a press release from the company

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“The need for countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) to ramp up renewable capacities over the next decade has grown with the EU target to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. Given that

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“The European Commission has come to the conclusion that with the current European policy framework, we will not reach climate neutrality by 2050. Thus, the Commission has decided to increase the

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In her State of the Union Address in the European Parliament on Wednesday 16 September, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, proposed an increase in the 2030 EU emissions

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Meeting the proposed 55% greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction target by 2030 will require “significant additional investment, to decarbonise power generation, industry and transport, and to

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The European Union needs to step up its action on violations of EU law by Chinese state-owned enterprises in Europe, warned civil society groups working in South East Europe on Monday, as European and

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In its draft Sustainable Energy Development Strategy up to 2030 with a horizon to 2050, Bulgaria plans to have 2.65 GW of renewable energy capacities installed by 2030, mostly photovoltaic. However,

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The share of fossil fuels – coal, oil and natural gas – will fall from around 85% of primary energy in 2018 to between 65% and 20% by 2050 under the three scenarios presented in BP’s 2020