Important questions remain unanswered with regard to the plant’s economics:
What technical compromises have been made in order to bring down the cost?
What future electricity prices are being assumed?
What coal price is being assumed?
Have future costs of CO2 emissions been included in the calculations?
Is the plant feasible if the planned 350 MW Banovići plant, less than 30 km away, is also built?
No BiH politician has had the courage to face up to this political hot potato so far. Instead of planning for a managed and fair transition, they make misleading promises about safeguarding 3500 workplaces in the mines by building Tuzla 7, which is impossible.
https://bankwatch.org/project/tuzla-7-l ... zegovina-2Overlooked carbon costs could turn Western Balkans’ new coal power plants into white elephants – analysis
A new Bankwatch analysis examining ten coal-fired power plant projects across the Western Balkans finds that, once the cost of carbon emissions allowances are factored in, they could become a serious liability for both the companies involved and the public. Moreover, only a few feasibility assessments for coal power plants in the region are publicly available, and most of those have failed to properly take carbon costs into account, the briefing authors note.
https://bankwatch.org/press_release/ove ... s-analysis
