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Europe
Group of six utilities call for stronger ETS
Six major energy companies have come together to call on the European Union to develop a more effective emissions trading system or ETS.
Coal Fired
EPH bid for Rybnik coal-fired power plant
EPH has reportedly placed a bid to take over EDF’s Rybnik coal-fired power plant in Poland, according to local media.
Australasia
Vattenfall receives one binding offer for German coal fleet
Vattenfall has received a binding offer for its lignite assets in Germany, but the company's general difficulty in offloading its coal-fired power fleet in Germany is greatly troubling the states affected.
Coal Fired
Difficulty in offloading lignite assets may force Vattenfall re-think
Swedish utility Vattenfall may have to change tactics in order to successfully sell its German lignite coal-fired power assets.
Coal Fired
Czech Vattenfall deal may falter on government’s strategy
CEZ’s bid to acquire Vattenfall’s lignite coal-fired power plants hinge on the German government’s ultimate plans for the fuel source’s phase-out.
Coal Fired
Steag linked with bid for Vattenfall coal power assets
Steag, the hard coal-fired power generation plant operator, is said to be expressing an interest in Vattenfall’s lignite power assets in Germany.
Coal Fired
Greenpeace makes move on Vattenfall German coal assets
Greenpeace appears to be backing up its rhetoric by making a formal bid for Vattenfall’s coal assets in Germany.
Coal Fired
Vattenfall’s German coal plants targeted by Czech interests
EPH and PPF, two privately owned Czech energy companies along with the country’s chief investment group PPF, are to bid for a portfolio of German lignite and hydroelectric power stations being sold by Sweden's Vattenfall.
Coal Fired
Vattenfall coal-fired power plants sale back on the table
Swedish utility Vattenfall’s long-delayed sale of its German lignite assets has been revived, thanks to a beneficial change in Germany’s policy towards coal.
Energy Storage
Limitations of battery storage demonstrated in French project
The Nice Grid, a major pilot project designed to improve the integration of renewables on to the grid, has provided some telling data so far on the limitations of the technology.
