Bulgaria's energy regulator said on
Monday it extended by five years, until then end of 2019,the electricity
production licence of thermal power plant (TPP) Bobov Dol.
The licence is
extended in the conditions of an issued integrated licence, the State Energy and
Water Regulatory Commission (SEWRC) said in a notice published on its
website.
The terms of the extended licence are identical to the ones for
the licence that the TPP received in February 2001, it added.
In October,
Bulgaria's Execution Environment Agency said TPP Bobov Dol had applied for an
integrated permit for operating a combustion installation for electricity and a
hydrogen installation as it plans to operate a combustion installation with a
nominal thermal power of over 50 megawatts.
In a business plan for the
2015-2018 period which the company submitted as part of the licensing process,
it projects that the amount of electricity it will produce will gradually
increase from 1.6 million megawatt-hours (MWh) in 2014 to 2.0 million MWh in
2018. The company's sales revenues are expected to increase from 117.9 million
levs ($74 million/60.3 million euro) in 2014 to more than 160 million levs in
2018.
Bobov Dol, established in 2000, is a coal-fired power plant in the
Kyustendil region, in southwestern Bulgaria, with an installed capacity of 630
megawatts. In 2009, Bulgaria sold the TPP to local consortium Energy MK.