CEZ to Lower Pollution By Modernizing Four Old Coal Power Plants and Building Two New Ones After 2010

CEZ (Prague, Czech Republic), power company, plans to lower its pollution by modernizing four old coal power plants and building two new ones after 2010. All CEZ’s power plants discharged 23,600 tonnes less nitrogen oxides to the air in 1999 compared to 1995. However, these emissions grew by 10,000 tonnes/y in 2000 and have been roughly on the same level since. The latest OECD report on the state of the environment in the Czech Republic of 2005 says that the country’s sulfur and nitrogen oxides and carbon dioxide emissions are among the highest of all OECD countries. The OECD recommends the Czech government to develop even more pressure on firms to use energies in production more effectively. The energy demands in the Czech Republic are 1.7-times as high as the OECD average.