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Slovenia: Case Study Šoštanj Thermal Power Plant
The lives of people and the environment in the Shale valley have changed considerably over the last sixty years. Because of the great demand for electricity and coal that was in this region of Slovenia for the time being, a thermal power plant and a mine were built here.
According to the EEA report, among the 30 most damaging plants are coal and lignite coal-fired plants, most of which are in Germany and Eastern Europe.
The survey included 56 Slovenian plants. The largest pollutant in Slovenia and 82nd in the EU is the Šoštanj Thermal Power Plant (Teš), which in the five years from 2008 to 2012 estimated the agency to incur costs ranging from 763 million to 1.89 billion euros.
Existing TEŠ plants comply with environmental norms. The rehabilitation program has brought improvements to practically all discharges from the thermal power plant, except in the area of carbon dioxide. Its emissions depend directly on the efficiency of the power plant. For the accuracy and quality of the data, the Milan Vidmar Elektroinštitut from Ljubljana is the authorized energy institution; regular calibrations of measuring equipment are performed in the chemical analysis of sediment precipitation.
In TEŠ environmental projects in the last twenty years have been focused primarily on the rehabilitation of the negative impacts of air and water. In 1987, we started ecological remediation, so that electricity production is environmentally acceptable. Emissions of SO2, NOx and dust, consumption and water pollution have been reduced.
