http://www.ebrd.com/projects/eias The EBRD makes EIAs of environmentally sensitive projects it is considering available for review by the public. en-gb Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:33:16 +0000 EBRD is considering a loan of up to EUR 10.0 million to EKOPLUS, the Regional Waste Management Company to finance development of the City of Rijeka Regional Waste Management Centre (RWMC) in accordance with national and EU standards. EKOPLUS is majority owned by Primorsko-goranska County and the City of Rijeka. http://www.ebrd.com/projects/eias/39417.htm http://www.ebrd.com/projects/eias/39417.htm 15 March 2010 Croatia Municipal and environmental infrastructure The EBRD is considering providing financing to Relax Wind Park I Sp. z.o.o. (“Relax I”), a special purpose vehicle, controlled indirectly by EDP Renováveis, S.A. (“EDPR”) for the construction and operation of a 120MW wind farm located in the Margonin region of North West Poland. The Project will assist Poland in increasing its renewable energy capacity to meet EU’s green energy quotas. The Bank is providing financing for the first two wind farm projects in the region of a total capacity of 120 MW. This wind farm full commissioning expected during the first quarter of 2010 and will comprise: http://www.ebrd.com/projects/eias/40553.htm http://www.ebrd.com/projects/eias/40553.htm 18 January 2010 Poland The EBRD is considering financing the construction and operation by Martifer Renewable SGPS SA of three wind farm projects in south-eastern Poland. Martifer Renewable is a Portuguese company with extensive international experience of developing and operating renewable energy projects. Martifer Renewable is developing four winds farm project in south-eastern Poland, which can be summarized as: http://www.ebrd.com/projects/eias/40124.htm http://www.ebrd.com/projects/eias/40124.htm 8 January 2010 The EBRD is considering financing the construction of a Greenfield biomass Combined Heat and Power plant (CHP) in the Nikopol municipality in North Bulgaria. The plant will have a 15 MW biomass electricity generating power plant. The Project will also be available to produce 9.37 MW of steam annually for industrial purposes and hot water for district heating (11.20 MW annual heat output) in the town of Nikopol and/or Cherkovitsa. The plant will use approximately 300 tones of straw a date for a total of around 110 000 tones per years. The use of biomass will help Bulgaria reduce carbon emissions, as a similar coal fired plant would emit around 440,000 tons of carbon per annum. http://www.ebrd.com/projects/eias/39388.htm http://www.ebrd.com/projects/eias/39388.htm 15 December 2009 Bulgaria Power and Energy The Project is design, build, finance, operate and maintain 75 km of two dual carriageways within five sections of the D1 Motorway network in Slovakia, between Dubna Skala and Turany, Turany and Hubova, Hubova and Ivachnova, Janovce and Jablonov, and Fricovce and Svinia; under a 30 year availability fee-based concession. This concession is pursuant to a concession contract between the Ministry of Transport, Post and Telecommunications of the Slovak Republic and the concessionaire Slovenské diaľnice a.s. This is the second concession contract awarded for a PPP structure for motorway projects in Slovakia. The motorway would be constructed using private financing and utilising private efficiencies; and the concessionaire would introduce new operational, managerial and commercial practices. http://www.ebrd.com/projects/eias/39007.htm http://www.ebrd.com/projects/eias/39007.htm 23 November 2009 Slovak Republic The EBRD is considering financing the modernisation programme of Termoelektrarna Šoštanj (TEŠ, or Borrower) which focuses on the replacement of four existing low efficiency units with a new state-of-the art supercritical 600 MW Unit 6 with full environmental protection systems (Project) constructed within the boundaries of the existing Šoštanj Power Plant in the city of Šoštanj, north-east Slovenia. The proposed TEŠ’s modernisation programme will substantially decrease the environmental impact from its operations. More specifically, the Project will improve efficiency by increasing the production of electric energy per tonne of coal. It will also reduce specific CO2 emissions (tons of CO2 released per KWh produced). Furthermore, the proposed modernisation programme will enable TEŠ to meet future environmental requirements as set out in the draft EU Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) expected to be implemented by 2012, replacing the existing Large Combustion Plan Directive and the Integrated Pollution and Prevention Directive. The new unit is expected to become commercially operational in 2015 http://www.ebrd.com/projects/eias/40417.htm http://www.ebrd.com/projects/eias/40417.htm 6 November 2009 Slovenia Energy Resources LLC (ER) is seeking debt financing from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to develop Phase II of their Ukhaa Khudag (UHG) Project (hereafter, “the Project’). The Project will build on ER’s current Phase I mining operations (EBRD Project Number 39820) to include the expansion of the existing UHG coal mine and related infrastructure (eg. pits, pipelines, internal roads, workshops, ancillaries etc.). Other elements of the Phase II Project may include: http://www.ebrd.com/projects/eias/39957.htm http://www.ebrd.com/projects/eias/39957.htm 16 October 2009 Mongolia Georgian Railway LLC, the Georgian state-owned railway company, is seeking finance from the EBRD to develop a new railway route bypassing the central area of the city of Tbilisi. http://www.ebrd.com/projects/eias/40173.htm http://www.ebrd.com/projects/eias/40173.htm 3 September 2009 Georgia The proposed project consists of construction of a new 750 kV power transmission line. This public sector project entails a 190km long 750 kV TL connecting Zaporizhska Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) with a newly planned substation in Nova Kahovka (750/330 kV Kahovska substation) along with two 330kV double circuit diversions (TL 330 kV Novokahovska – Ostrovska and Novokahovska – Kherson) of 28 and 17 km length, and a rehabilitation of an existing substation 330/220 kV (SS 330 kV Novokahovska substation). The current design and planning is mainly based on the original routing from the 1980s and the already existing tower locations. The exact routing of the current design and planning stage will be established after completion of field work by the surveyors; and as a part of the assessment a number of alternative routes were considered. The objective of this Project is to increase the efficiency of the national power sector by allowing Zaporizhzhia NPP to operate at full power (6000 MW) following a better connection to the power network with an ultimate benefit also to regional power supply reliability and quality. Increased reliability of the power system will increase overall sector efficiency will thus have indirect environmental benefits and facilitate international co-operation in the sector. http://www.ebrd.com/projects/eias/40147.htm http://www.ebrd.com/projects/eias/40147.htm 4 August 2009 Ukraine   http://www.ebrd.com/projects/eias/37536.htm http://www.ebrd.com/projects/eias/37536.htm 20 July 2009 Croatia