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.
Germany to start shift to coal power reserve in winter 2016
German utilities RWE, Vattenfall and Mibrag will start reducing their coal-fired power output at the start of winter 2016, shifting this capacity instead to the country's power reserve as part of a plan to cut carbon emissions, the government said.
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.
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Popular national park faces coal-ash cloud threat
Ida National Park, a national park bordering the northwestern province of Çanakkale and the western province of Bal?kesir, faces a major threat of being clouded with coal ash, as a coal power plant is planned to be built near the popular parkland.
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Precious loneliness working against Turkey's energy interests
Turkey cannot become an energy hub if it continues to pursue contentious relations with its neighbors, according to an energy expert.
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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Five more million cubic meters remains to be pumped out
BELGRADE - There is a little over five million cubic meters of water left to be pumped out of the Tamnava - Zapadno Polje open coal mine pit, out of the 187 million cubic meters brought by the flooding in May last year, RB Kolubara Director Milorad Grcic said Friday.
Mine Blast in Eastern Ukraine 'Kills 30'
At least 30 people have been left dead by a blast in the Zasyadko coal mine in Ukraine's east, in an area controlled by rebels, according to media reports.
More than 40 are thought to be trapped underground, Lentra.ru quotes a Donetsk People's Republic official as saying.
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