Coal

Questions rising over Turkey's overemphasis on coal resources

Turkey has developed a number of plans to diversify its energy resources over the last decade. These plans have accelerated since the jet crisis erupted with Russia, Turkey's largest energy provider, last November. However, the overemphasis on coal resources in these plans has triggered key environmental questions and other concerns, mainly about labor safety in the mining sector. 

G-20 providing $452 bln a year on fossil fuel production subsidies despite pledge to remove them: Report

G-20 governments are handing out approximately $452 billion a year to prop up the production of fossil fuels - despite pledges to phase out subsidies and prevent catastrophic climate change.

A new report by the Overseas Development Institute and Oil Change International has for the first time gathered detailed information on G20 subsidies to oil, gas and coal production. 

France lobby groups urge to end coal projects in Turkey

Environmental lobby groups on Oct. 7 urged French President Francois Hollande to force state-owned utility Engie to stop investing in coal projects in Turkey.

Engie, in partnership with the Turkish company Mimag-Sanko, plans to build the Ada Yumurtal?k 1,320-megawatt coal plant in the south of Turkey.

Aksa opens 270-MW coal power plant in Turkey

Aksa Enerji has opened a 270-MW power plant that will produce electricity using local coal resources for $390 million in the Göynük district of the Black Sea province of Bolu. 

Turkey's first power plant investment with the coal royalty will produce 2 billion kilowatt/hour (kWh) energy every year, the company stated in a press release on Aug. 14.

PPC uses imports to cover demand

By Chryssa Liaggou

The partial rather than complete lifting of distortions in the electricity market has worked in favor of imports and has not produced an increase in lignite use, as expected, the official data of the Public Power Corporation and the Hellenic Electricity Market Operator (LAGIE) showed for 2014 and the first quarter of 2015.

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