Week in Slovakia Monday – 6th June 2011 A private investor wants to build a biogas station in the town Štrkovec near Rimavská Sobota. The stations should generate around 8 thousand Mwh of electricity and almost 8.2 thousand Mwh of heat energy. The cost of constructing the biogas station should be 4 million Euro and it should be put into operation in mid of 2012. Each year the biogas station will consume more than 16 thousand tons of corn silage and 1,5 thousand tons of haylage. Tuesday – 7th June 2011 The sugar refinery in Trenčianská Teplá used to produce heat by burning coal and later heating oils. Currently they use natural gas and in future they should also use biomethane gained from rapeseed oil waste. (for video and photos click here) Austrian experts welcomed the approach of Slovakia in the question of declassifying the Preliminary security report (PRESAR) of the project that should finish construction works on the third and fourth block of the Nuclear power plant Mochovce. The team of Austrian experts came to Mochovce on Monday and during the visit they were able to asses and read the Report and at the same time also pose questions to its content. Czech energy concern ČEZ is considering to take part in the privatization of the state heating companies in Bratislava and Košice. The information was provided by the marketing director of ČEZ Alan Svoboda in an interview for eTrend.sk. However, the company is not willing to pay the so called „strategic bonus”. At the same time he also added that at the moment it is too soon to make any qualified investment decision as not many information are available. Wednesday – 8th June 2011 Construction of the power plant in Jaslovské Bohunice should not be restricted by legislative. (Zobraziť celý článok)