Dravske elektrarne Maribor plans EUR 65 million investment in wind farms
Slovenia’s power utility Dravske Elektrarne Maribor (DEM) plans to invest EUR 65 million in three wind farms – Ojstrica, Paški Kozjak, and Rogatec. The installed capacity of the wind farms would be 46 MW with an expected output of 122 GWh per annum. Currently, Slovenia has only two wind turbines, with the production of 6 […]
HSE names new top managers at thermal power plant TEŠ, coal mine Velenje
Slovenia’s state power utility Holding Slovenske Elektrarne (HSE) has appointed new top managers at two of its subsidiaries – Termoelektrarna Šoštanj, which operates the Šoštanj thermal power plant (TEŠ), and Premogovnik Velenje, the operator of the Velenje coal mine, according to two separate press releases on the company’s website. HSE named Viktor Vračar as director […]
Project scrapped to build HPP Hrastje-Mota over negative environmental impact
The Slovenian government has halted preparations to produce a national spatial plan (DPN) for the Hrastje-Mota hydropower plant (HPP), the first that was planned on the Mura river. Numerous NGOs, which had been opposing the construction of the HPP over its negative environmental impact, welcomed the decision. However, the project developer, HSE Group, said that […]
Slovenia’s HSE Group books EUR 11.8 million loss in 2018
Slovenia’s HSE Group, which includes state power utility Holding Slovenske Elektrarne (HSE), logged a EUR 11.8 million loss in 2018, compared to a EUR 8.21 million profit in 2017, mainly due to the impairment of the Šoštanj thermal power plant (TEŠ) operator’s assets, according to the group’s annual report. Had it not been for the […]
HSE appoints new director general, COO
Slovenia’s power company Holding Slovenske Elektrarne (HSE) has appointed Stojan Nikolić as the new director general and Viktor Vračar as the chief operating officer, while Boštjan Markoli was elected as a new president of the Supervisory Board. The former director general Matjaž Marovt resigned at the end of the January, while the former president of […]
HSE shuts down another obsolete unit of coal-fired Šoštanj power plant
Slovenian state energy company Holding Slovenske Elektrarne (HSE) has shut down another environmentally and technologically outdated unit of the country’s largest coal-fired energy facility, the Šoštanj thermal power plant (TPP). The most recently closed unit of TPP Šoštanj, the 275 MW Unit 4, reached the end of its life after 46 years of operation, according […]
HSE’s net profit plunges 56% in 2017 as electricity production shrinks 10%
Slovenian state power utility Holding Slovenske Elektrarne’s (HSE) net profit in 2017 dropped 56% against 2016, to EUR 19.7 million, as a result of a 10% year-on-year decrease in electricity production, according to HSE’s annual report. HSE’s total electricity production in 2017 was 7,034 GWh, down from 7,778 GWh in 2016. Output at HSE’s hydropower […]
Matjaž Marovt appointed director general of Slovenian state power company HSE
Matjaž Marovt, acting director of Slovenian state power company, Holding Slovenske elektrane (HSE), has been appointed HSE director general for a four-year term, the company announced. The HSE Supervisory Board appointed Marovt as director general on August 1. Marovt joined HSE as a member of the Supervisory Board last spring, and has served as acting […]