China

Source: Maja Zuvela, Reuters

* Chinese-built plant is first privately built in Western Balkans

* Plant increases regional dependent on dirty coal

* Chinese investment playing growing role in region's power

By Maja Zuvela

STANARI, Bosnia, Sept 20 The Balkan region's first privately-funded power plant came online on Tuesday, increasing the region's dependency on coal-fired power stations even as environmental concerns are driving them to the brink of the extinction elsewhere in Europe.

Source: Simona Drevenšek, Energetika-Net

Chinese investors are prepared to keep investing in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), as well as Republika Srpska in the field of energy, among other things, said Petar Đokić, Republika Srpska’s Minister of Industry, Energy and Mining, yesterday at the 7th international investment conference ‘Sarajevo Business Forum (SBF) - Prospects for China +16 CEEC’, which is taking place in Sarajevo on 4-5 May. ...

Source: Karen Mesina, Asian Power

China is awfully torn between coal power reduction and further growing its exports.

When the OECD agreed to restrict subsidies for coal-fired power plants’ exports, both investors and the press had a field day. It was a big step in curbing the growth of global coal-fired power generation and it could have been a phenomenal day for the power industry--except that China, the biggest elephant in the room, was missing when the coal power reduction pact was made.