The Ministry of Spatial Planning, Construction and Ecology of the Republic of Srpska has issued an environmental permit for an open-pit mine for the exploitation of…
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The Slovenian operator of the lignite mine Premogovnik Velenje submitted a request for the extension of the validity of the mining rights and concession for the…
Greece’s plan to double electricity production in coal-fired thermal power plants in 2022 was not successfully implemented, and the minimal increase in coal-based production did not…
Greece’s Elektroprivreda PPC has increased lignite production by an additional 5,000 tonnes to 6,000 tonnes a day for its Meliti and Agios Dimitrios power plants in…
Nikos Mantzaris, Senior Policy Analyst at The Green Tank, commented on the issue of lignite’s use in electricity production with respect to Greece’s energy security in…
People abandoned at the edge of Bulgaria’s largest coal basin expect accountability from the multilateral development bank that financed the mine expansion. In October Bulgaria’s Maritsa East…
A total of 3.7 billion euros for regional development would secure a just transition for coal phase-out in three SEE countries, according to a study developed…
Greek state-controlled Public Power Corporation (PPC) recorded a net loss of 1.68 billion euros in 2019, after it wrote off the value of its lignite-fired thermal…
Director of the Energy Community (EnC) Secretariat Janez Kopac has warned authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) that they have to stop investing in coal-fired power…