2021-9-20 Effects of coal mining in Bulgaria. 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
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.
In 2012, eight years early, Bulgaria reached its 2020 target of 16% renewable energy in final energy consumption, but at a high economic and political cost. Due to its domestic production of coal and nuclear power, Bulgaria had an import dependency in 2017 of just 39.5%, far below the EU average of 55.1%.
Bulgarian brown coal mining Bulgaria’s brown coal deposits are mainly located in the western part of the country (Bobov Dol, Pernik and Pirin coalfields and the Katrishte deposit) and near the
2021-9-30 This statistic shows the revenue of the industry “mining of hard coal“ in Bulgaria from 2012 to 2017, with a forecast to 2025.
Mining represents 4-5% of GDP and supports 40% of electricity generation. Bulgaria is one of the top 30 global coal producing countries. Metallic resources represent 25% of output, of which copper is 98%, lead/zinc 2%. Bulgaria holds a leading position in European mining. The country ranks third in copper, fourth in gold, fifth in lignite mining.
2021-9-20 Bulgaria could use the tools of the recovery plan and of the Just Transition Fund, as well as the resources of the operational programmes from the new programming period etc. Tens of billion can be channeled so that we can guarantee, to the highest extent possible, the work of our coal mining companies and thermal power stations until we find
The study of the just transition of the coal-mining regions in Southwest Bulgaria is coordinated with various institutions and organizations affected by the problems of transition in the region, including local and regional authorities, trade unions, business, national institutions and the non-governmental sector.
2019-3-26 While the rest of the EU is closing down coal-fired thermal power plants, or TPPs, Bulgaria’s government is expanding or granting new permits for coal mining and promising workers at the largest
2020-8-20 Greenpeace demands coal phaseout in Bulgaria by 2030. The government in Sofia should look up to Greece in its energy policy, according to Balin Balinov from Greenpeace Bulgaria, who called for a coal
2021-9-20 Effects of coal mining in Bulgaria. 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
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.
2021-9-20 Bulgaria could use the tools of the recovery plan and of the Just Transition Fund, as well as the resources of the operational programmes from the new programming period etc. Tens of billion can be channeled so that we can guarantee, to the highest extent possible, the work of our coal mining companies and thermal power stations until we find
Bulgarian brown coal mining Bulgaria’s brown coal deposits are mainly located in the western part of the country (Bobov Dol, Pernik and Pirin coalfields and the Katrishte deposit) and near the
The study of the just transition of the coal-mining regions in Southwest Bulgaria is coordinated with various institutions and organizations affected by the problems of transition in the region, including local and regional authorities, trade unions, business, national institutions and the non-governmental sector.
2018-11-23 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.
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
2021-8-2 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
2020-8-20 Greenpeace demands coal phaseout in Bulgaria by 2030. The government in Sofia should look up to Greece in its energy policy, according to Balin Balinov from Greenpeace Bulgaria, who called for a coal exit twenty years earlier than in the
2021-9-21 Under the EU Green Deal, of which Bulgaria is part, the use of coal in energy industry is to be done away with by 2030. The target is net carbon emissions to be reduced by 55%.
Bulgarian brown coal mining Bulgaria’s brown coal deposits are mainly located in the western part of the country (Bobov Dol, Pernik and Pirin coalfields and the Katrishte deposit) and near the
2021-9-20 Bulgaria could use the tools of the recovery plan and of the Just Transition Fund, as well as the resources of the operational programmes from the new programming period etc. Tens of billion can be channeled so that we can guarantee, to the highest extent possible, the work of our coal mining companies and thermal power stations until we find
2018-11-23 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.
2021-8-8 In Bulgaria, almost half of national energy is produced by coal-fired power plants. A very polluting energy, in terms of CO2 emissions, but also due to the production of sulphur dioxide, a toxic gas that irritates the airways and produces acid rain.
2021-10-14 SOFIA (Bulgaria), October 14 (SeeNews) Bulgaria's caretaker government said that it will propose to the European Commission the year 2038 as an indicative date to close down the country's coal-fired power plants, in line with the EU's plan to phase out coal in electricity generation.
Bulgarian villagers in chronic limbo over coal mine expansion. Residents of Beli Bryag in Bulgaria’s Stara Zagora region anxiously await removal from their homes to make way for the expansion of a mine that feeds Maritsa East, the country’s largest coal complex. “I
2015-4-5 The only in Bulgaria and the Balkans Museum of Coal Mining is situated in Pernik. The idea about the establishment of this museum was born back in 1986 when some Bulgarian miners returned to Pernik with impressions from their visit to the Museum of rock-salt in the town of Wieliczka (Poland).
2021-9-21 Under the EU Green Deal, of which Bulgaria is part, the use of coal in energy industry is to be done away with by 2030. The target is net carbon emissions to be reduced by 55%.
2021-8-2 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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