Just Transition Fund
EU proposes 2040 emissions cut target of 90%, spelling end of coal
07 February 2024 - The European Commission published an impact assessment on possible pathways toward making the European Union climate neutral by 2050
Projects worth EUR 5.6 billion underway in Bulgaria to replace coal
22 January 2024 - Coal plants in Bulgaria may close much faster than planned. Companies submitted over 70 proposals for the Just Transition Fund.
Mitsotakis: Just green transition starts with obvious win-win efforts
19 January 2024 - Huge funds are necessary for a just green transition, but so is public support, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in Davos
ContourGlobal urges Bulgaria to help coal plants for sake of energy security
17 January 2024 - CEO of ContourGlobal Maritsa East 3 Vassil Shtonov said Bulgaria needs to keep coal plants afloat until large gas power plants are built
Bulgarian coal regions get EUR 1.2 billion in grants from EU’s Just Transition Fund
22 December 2023 - Bulgaria's coal regions have EUR 1.2 billion in grants from the EU's Just Transition Fund to decarbonize and transform the local economy
How can energy transition be just to people in coal regions
05 December 2023 - The authorities must act before people leave, according to the speakers at the annual meeting of the Initiative for coal regions in transition in the Western Balkans and Ukraine
Slovenian municipalities to decarbonize district heating system with TPP Šoštanj
29 August 2023 - Three municipalities in the Šalek valley in Slovenia signed a cooperation agreement with the utility firm in Velenje and with TEŠ
Mitsotakis inaugurates Ptolemaida 5, Greece’s last lignite plant
14 February 2023 - The Ptolemaida 5 lignite-fired power plant was inaugurated today by Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and CEOs of PPC and GEK Terna
Bulgaria works on renewables portfolio expansion, plans offshore wind, floating solar
07 June 2022 - The country intends to remove restrictions and simplify procedures for the deployment of renewables, deрuty Prime Minister Sandov said
Greece to establish company for transforming coal land property
03 September 2021 - The government in Athens is preparing a bill for a just development transition of its coal regions as the use of the harmful fossil fuel is being phased out
Securing EU money for Bulgaria’s energy transition will be difficult without coal phaseout date
09 August 2021 - Professor Koso Stoychev said Slovakia, Romania and Greece have set dates for phasing out coal, and that Bulgaria must do the same.
Slovenia’s mayors set council to secure just transition for coal phaseout
22 June 2021 - The government has published action plans for phasing out coal, documents which will help Slovenia to apply at Just transition fund.