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29.06.2017 17:49
© Maritsa East 2 TPP
Bulgaria’s largest coal-fired power plant – the state-run Maritsa East 2 – must invest at least BGN 600 m (about EUR 300 m) in order to comply with the new thresholds for SO2 and NOx emissions levels. This estimate, announced on Thursday by Maritsa East 2 TPP CEO Zhivko Dinchev, did not include mercury emissions compliance costs entailed by the new large combustion plants EU rules voted in April of this year.
Maritsa East 2 TPP has so far invested over BGN 1.1. bn in environmental measures, Dinchev said during a parliamentary hearing, adding that the power plant needs to build entirely new flue gas desulfurization (FGD) systems on its units 7 and 8.
The power plant has been equipped with new FGDs in 2000, boasting a 90 per cent capturing rate. Meanwhile current derogations allow Maritsa East 2 TPP to operate at a capturing level of 96 per cent, Dinchev said, calling the new allowed emissions levels ‘fatal’ for the power plant.
He pointed out however that the power plant’s units 1 to 6 could become compliant with a modernization of their FGDs.
Prior to the new rules' adoption, Maritsa East 2 TPP warned that compliance costs would mean a nearly 30 per cent increase in the price of the power it produces.
Maritsa East 2 TPP was commissioned during the period 1963 - 1969 with four units of 150 MW were built in two stages – I n 1985- units 5 and 6 with 210MW, and in 1990-1995 units 7 and 8, with 215 MW capacity each. The power plant burns ignites with low calorific value and high ash and sulfur content; delivered by rail from the Maritsa - East coal field Troyanovo -North open cast mine.
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