Rovinari unit 7, Romania
May 16, 2018
CANCELLED: The Romanian Government has been negotiating for several years with the Chinese Government to build a new 600 MW unit at the lignite power plant in Rovinari, Gorj County. The new unit would be built on the site of Units 1 and 2, currently decommissioned. A new up and running plant would pollute the whole region for at least 40 more years, a coal plant’s average lifespan.
Gacko II, Bosnia and Herzegovina
May 15, 2018
The Republika Srpske government plans to build a new 350 MW lignite power plant in Gacko, near the town’s existing plant. After years of stagnation, in August 2022 it was reported that the Czech company Witkowitz was considering investing in the project.
Kamengrad lignite power plant, Bosnia-Herzegovina
May 15, 2018
An idea to build a power plant at the open-cast Kamengrad coal mine near Sanski Most in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina has been around for years, but in November 2017 it took a step forward with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between Energy China International and the construction supplier Lager d.o.o. for a 2 x 215 MW plant.
The loan that made sense until it didn’t
May 11, 2018
During the annual meetings of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the bank is the subject of a complaint for policy violations via a EUR 200 million loan to Serbia’s state-owned energy utility: money earmarked to prepare the fossil fuels-based company for the realities of adhering to stricter EU legislation will instead enable it to extract and burn even more fossil fuels.
EPS restructuring loan
May 10, 2018
Despite its commitments to increase the share of renewables under the Energy Community and reduce greenhouse gas emissions within the process of EU accession, the Serbian government seems determined to remain locked-in to a carbon intensive energy syst
Novi ugalj na Balkanu – Zbogom zaštiti klime?
May 5, 2018
Građani će plaćati i novcem i zdravljem ako se ostane pri planovima za gradnju novih termoelektrana, a BiH će ostati među zemaljama sa najzagađenijim zrakom na svijetu, upozorili su stručnjaci na diskusiji u Berlinu. Source: Novi ugalj na Balkanu – Zbo
Chinese banks move into Bosnian power sector
April 17, 2018
Balkan coal projects are expanding under the Belt and Road banner “Miners don’t say good day, we say good luck,” says Hata Muratović Hasanspahić, standing at the door to a concrete elevator shaft that carries her 300 metres below ground each day. Hata
Planned Gacko II lignite plant in Bosnia-Herzegovina likely to make losses, shows new analysis
April 12, 2018
Our colleagues from the Center for Environment from Banja Luka have today published a new analysis of the feasibility study for the planned Gacko II lignite power plant in Bosnia-Herzegovina, which shows that the new plant is likely to be unprofitable.
BiH’s Ugljevik 3 TPP Under Examination Again
March 23, 2018
The permit for construction of the 600 MW Ugljevik 3 thermal power plant (TPP) in Republika Srpska is now also under examination by the Espoo Convention Implementation Committee due to Bosnia and Herzegovina’s (BiH) failure to notify neighbouring count
Five decades breathing coal and losing years of life in Bosnia
February 24, 2018
Os moradores de Tuzla, no nordeste da Bósnia-Herzegóvina, vivem em média três anos menos que seus compatriotas, já que convivem com uma usina termelétrica alimentada com carvão que há cinco décadas co Source: Five decades breathing coal and losing year
