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Coal mining - bgenh.com

Coal mining. Mini Maritsa iztok (MMI) operates the largest open pit lignite coal mine in the country and sells to four thermal power plants, including TPP Maritsa East 2, all of them located in the Maritsa-East complex. MMI extracts over 90% of the coal required for the thermal power plant energy production in Bulgaria.

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Bulgarian miners protest EU push to close coal mines and ...

About 1,000 miners and workers from Bulgaria's largest coal-fired power plant marched in Sofia on Wednesday to protect their jobs and to urge the government to support their industry. Demonstrators called on the cabinet to guarantee it would not rush to shut mines and power plants at the Maritsa East lignite coal complex in southern Bulgaria ...

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Bulgaria and coal - Global Energy Monitor

Coal Mining. Almost all the lignite is mined at the Maritsa Iztok Complex.. Electricity. Total annual electricity generation is about 40TWh. In 2016 coal generated 22TWh of electricity and nuclear 14TWh with natural gas providing less than 1TWh. The main renewable sources of energy are hydro followed by wind then solar. Exports of electricity greatly exceeded imports.

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JUST TRANSITION - WWF

Just transition for the coal-mining regions in Southwest Bulgaria 5 ЧАСТ I. Въведение is the "Struma Province" containing 85% of the brown coal deposits and reserves in Bulgaria. It includes the Bobovdol field, Pernik field and Pirin field. On the territory

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The energy sector in Bulgaria - Bankwatch

Bulgaria has two main pillars of the electricity producing sector – coal and nuclear. Coal provides roughly half of the electricity in the country and nuclear another 35 per cent. The rest is covered by renewables dominated by large hydro and followed by solar and wind generation. The currently prepared energy strategy of Bulgaria is likely to continue the coal and nuclear obsessions, with ...

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Bulgaria, Country has finally committed to giving up coal ...

Under pressure from the European Union, Bulgaria has finally committed to giving up coal. But miners fear that the country has failed to plan for a transition to greener jobs. At first glance, the Mini Maritsa Iztok mine is an empty, grey-brown expanse as barren as the surface of the moon, desolate except for the behemoth machines methodically ...

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Coal power plant in Bulgaria is polluting rivers • Water ...

The Struma River and its tributaries Rilska and German are polluted by the coal power plant Bobov Dol in the West of Bulgaria.

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Environment Energy Mining Watch SEE - Bulgaria hints at ...

Bulgaria has so far refused to accelerate coal phaseout plans as it stuck to the 2050 final EU deadline. Other countries in the region have lately also been canceling thermal power plant projects and pushing forward coal exit ambitions without announcements from top officials.

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Bulgaria wants another 2.6 GW of renewables by 2030 – …

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Bulgaria | the voice of coal in Europe

Coal power plants accounted for 45.9% of total electricity generation in 2017 and help to guarantee Bulgaria's energy security and economic competitiveness. Indigenous coal reserves can fuel power generation for the next sixty years. The 1 926 MW Kozloduy nuclear power plant plays a prominent, baseload role.

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Bulgarian Coal-Fired Power Plant May be Under-Reporting ...

By Eleonora Vio and Daniela Sala The heart of Bobov Dol power plant is a hot, dark, noisy chamber. Lumps of coal litter the floor beside pools of oil and water leaking from decades-old machinery, relics of the Soviet era when workers flocked to build one of Bulgaria's largest coal-fired facilities. Based in a major […]

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Coal mining leaves Bulgarian communities drained : Just ...

Coal mining leaves Bulgarian communities drained. As the largest underground mine in Bulgaria closes this year in Bobov Dol, the community worries about its future. Georgi Terziski is clipping bunches of grapes from the arbor which drapes across the terrace of his house in the village of Golemo Selo, Bulgaria, where he's lived for 56 years.

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Is Bulgaria Ready to Give Up Coal? | Pulitzer Center

Sprawling over 240 square kilometers (92 square miles), this is Bulgaria's biggest coal mine, supplying nearby power plants in the Stara Zagora region that produce around 30% of the country's electricity. Yet a closer look reveals the …

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Clinging to coal: A sobering look into Bulgaria's energy ...

Energy and climate in Bulgaria. Almost half of Bulgaria's primary electricity generation of about 38,574,877 MWh a year comes from coal. Renewables provide around 18 percent of all electricity consumed, but 5 percent of that 18 is based on the fact that Bulgaria has reported old-fashion wood burning as renewable.

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Two Bulgaria's coal power plants to be converted to ...

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. Thermal power plant (TPP) Varna decommissioned three coal-fired units with an installed ...

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Effects of coal mining in Bulgaria | Airclim

For years Pernik, in southwestern Bulgaria, has topped the charts for the city with the highest air pollution in the EU. People suffer diseases and complain about the high levels of particulate matter in the atmosphere, but still continue to burn the cheap local "kyumyur" coal in winter.

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Environment Energy Mining Watch SEE - Bulgaria has …

Bulgaria has finally committed to giving up coal. Published on 23. November 2021., News. Under pressure from the European Union, Bulgaria has finally committed to giving up coal. But miners fear that the country has failed to plan for a transition to greener jobs. At first glance, the Mini Maritsa Iztok mine is an empty, grey-brown expanse as ...

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Bulgarian miners march to protect coal industry

Bulgarian miners march to protect coal industry. SOFIA (Reuters) - About 1,000 miners and workers from Bulgaria's largest coal-fired power plant marched in Sofia on Wednesday to protect their jobs ...

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Bulgarian Coal Magnate's Plants May Have Saved Around …

Official emissions data, analyzed by OCCRP, shows Bobov Dol and another coal-fired plant linked to him — Brikel, in south-central Bulgaria — may have under-declared their carbon dioxide emissions for the past three years, saving at least 26.6 million euros. The suspect data was confirmed as accurate by a company set up by a 27-year-old with ...

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Environment Energy Mining Watch SEE - Bulgaria has …

Coal mining leaves Bulgarian communities drained. As the largest underground mine in Bulgaria closes this year in Bobov Dol, the community worries about its future. Georgi Terziski is clipping bunches of grapes from the arbor which drapes across the terrace of his house in the village of Golemo Selo, Bulgaria, where he's lived for 56 years.

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Category:Proposed coal plants in Bulgaria - Global Energy ...

Table 1: Proposed coal-fired power plants in Bulgaria (updated July 2016) Columns may be sorted by clicking on the headers. Unit Sponsor Parent Capacity (MW) Status Location ... RWE, MIM (Mariza Iztok Mining Company) 600: Cancelled: Galabovo: Pages in category "Proposed coal plants in Bulgaria" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of ...

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The Suffocating Grip Of Coal

Coal-fired power plants in Bulgaria Thermal power plants in Bulgaria: overview Before we discuss the health risks of coal-fired electricity generation in Bulgaria, let us review the energy sector in Bulgaria and the largest thermal power plants. 43% of Bulgaria's electricity is produced from coal (Figure 1). Nearly 40% of this falls on

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As the EU targets steep emissions cuts, this country has a ...

The year before Ivanova moved back to Bulgaria, the air quality in the town was regularly breaching European pollution limits, and the Republika plant was a prime reason.. Coal is at an inflection ...

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Bulgaria hints at possible closure of all coal-fired power ...

Bulgaria hints at possible closure of all coal-fired power plants by mid-2025. A combination of measures and investments from the current version of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan may lead to a rapid coal exit in Bulgaria, according to an analysis. The country told the European Union that it would replace its largest coal-fired ...

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Is Bulgaria ready to give up coal?

Sprawling over 240 square kilometers (92 square miles), this is Bulgaria's biggest coal mine, supplying nearby power plants in the Stara Zagora region that produce around 30% of the country's ...

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Bulgaria Clings to Coal, Going Against Europe - Balkan …

Bulgaria Clings to Coal, Going Against Europe. As the European Union seeks to wean the continent off coal, Bulgaria is digging in, postponing tough decisions to the ultimate detriment of coal ...

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