↑ Two Bulgarian coal power plants to be converted to natural gas hydrogen Balkan Green Energy News Jun 4 2021 ↑ Kokalova Antonia Mar 17th 2022 "Bulgarias Bobov Dol Coal Fired Power Plant to Build Gas Link by End of 2022"
Deven is a 121 MW CHP coal fired power station that fuels a soda ash facility in Devnya Bulgaria It was renovated with a circulating fluidized bed boiler in 2009 Unit 2 In October 2016 Amec Foster Wheeler was awarded a contract to erect a new CFB boiler in the Deven plant to replace boiler 9 in unit 2 which was running on natural gas
terms of water consumption coal is the least efficient energy source with some Bulgarian coal plants ranking amongst the worst on this indicator13 Additionally coal takes a serious In recent years there has been a downward trend in coal electricity generation in Bulgaria due to decreasing market competitiveness of the power plants3 4 Intro
Around 1 000 miners from Bulgaria s largest coal fired power plant marched in Sofia on Wednesday to protect their jobs and urge the government to support their industry
Coal generates half of Bulgaria s electricity About 30 million tons of lignite are mined annually[1] about 5 million tons oil equivalent [2] EU grants are supporting the replacement of polluting coal stoves in cities [3] but this may be alleviated by the sale of EU carbon credits as many ageing coal fired plants are retired
Maritsa East coal complex to become zero emission industrial park Bulgaria revealed that it would establish industrial parks with zero greenhouse gas emissions of which one would replace the Maritsa East Maritsa iztok coal mining and thermal power plant complex The funds are also intended for the production and supply of biomethane
However the coal plant never restarted because the government failed to obtain a two thirds majority vote and the intolerable cost burden it would have placed on taxpayers At the end of 2023 the country announced its commitment to decarbonise its entire energy system by 2035 Bulgaria s coal industry is on the brink of collapse with an
Greenpeace activists scaled the cooling tower of a coal fired power plant in Bulgaria on Monday in protest over its pollution demanding its immediate closure The seven activists from Greece Austria Croatia Romania and Bulgaria climbed the tower of the Maritsa 3 plant in southern Bulgaria at dawn and painted Crime in large white
SOFIA 14 OCTOBER 2021 The Bulgarian government has announced that the country will phase out coal in 2038 or 2040 in its National Resilience and Recovery Plan submitted to the European Commission today It makes Bulgaria the twentieth European country to announce a coal exit date but like Germany 2038 and Montenegro 2035 it is an
The Varna thermal power plant has signed a contract to install two gas fired combined cycle units with an installed capacity of 270 MW each just a few weeks after the 600 MW Bobov Doal coal fired system announced it would convert to gas and hydrogen
The problem with the future of coal regions is a social one In case of a possible closure of power plants and mines we must give a positive signal for the future of people employed in these sectors Zhivkov told BNR The energy minister also weighed on the global energy crisis and its implications on Bulgaria
↑ "Bulgarian Coal Magnate s Plants May Have Saved Around 30M Euros by Under Declaring Emissions" July 2021 {} CS1 maint url status ; ↑ "The Suffocating Grip Of Coal " Greenpeace Nov 1 2013; ↑ "Bulgarian Coal Fired Power Plant Brikel Resumes Operations " Power Market July 27 2011
Where governments fail to maintain breathable air citizens turn to the judiciary Campaign milestone A five year battle between a people powered campaign and the government of Bulgaria reached a milestone in March this year when the Administrative Court in Stara Zagora ruled that exempting Maritsa Iztok 2 the biggest state owned coal plant in the Balkans from
1 Enel planned invest in a new 700 MW coal fired power plant next to the existing Maritsa Iztok 3 plant with coal supplied from the Maritsa Iztok coal basin in Southern Bulgaria The new power plant was expected to cost 900 million In 2011 US energy company ContourGlobal became the new owner of Bulgaria s coal fired power plant Enel Maritsa
On the Balkan Peninsula lignite combustion in thermoelectric power plants TPP supplies the main electricity portion of the region In Bulgaria coal fired plants produce % of the electricity Bulgarian Ministry of Energy 2021 Lignite fired power plants are the main source of electricity in Greece producing >73% of the country s power
The coal reserves are expected to be sufficient to service the current usage for a period of between 60 and 70 years Collectively the mines produced million tonnes of coal in 2021 up from million tonnes in 2020 This represented 96% of total Bulgaria s 2021 coal production according to Ministry of Energy s 2021 Bulletin In 2021
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2 Coal Phase out In 2021 Bulgaria indicated that it may close all coal fired power plants by 2025 As part of this coal phase out the National Recovery and Resilience Plan highlighted that for Maritsa Iztok 2 power station GW of coal
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Bulgaria s lawmakers on Thursday backed a resolution aimed at avoiding an early phase out of coal fired power plants as more than 1 500 miners and utility workers demonstrated in front of the
We calculated the air quality impacts from Bulgaria s coal fired power plants CFPPs cumulated over 2023 2038 under three scenarios of different phase out pathways In the first scenario Scenario 1 phase out is delayed until 2038 and all Bulgarian CFPPs maintain current power capacities throughout the time period
SOFIA Bulgaria s lawmakers on Thursday backed a resolution aimed at avoiding an early phase out of coal fired power plants as more than 1 500 miners and utility workers demonstrated in front of
Greenpeace activists scaled the cooling tower of a coal fired power plant in Bulgaria on Monday in protest over its pollution demanding its immediate closure The seven activists from Greece Austria Croatia Romania and Bulgaria climbed the tower of the Maritsa 3 plant in southern Bulgaria at dawn and painted Crime in large white
Bulgaria s Minister of Environment and Water Julian Popov has affirmed the country s commitment to phasing out coal fired power plants emphasizing that the transition will be market driven