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CEZ purchases the minority state share in the Polish power plant Skawina
Warsaw, 16 September 2008. Today, the representatives of CEZ and the Polish state, i.e. State Treasury Secretary (skarbu państwa) Aleksander Grad, signed a contract on transfer of the state share in Elektrownia Skawina to CEZ. The transaction will be settled in the following days. For 25 % share + 1 stock, CEZ will pay the Polish state 92.6 million PLN which is almost 672 million CZK.
16. 9. 2008
CEZ expands its trading activities to the natural gas market
CEZ has stepped into the wholesale natural gas market by execution its first trade with this commodity today. Concretely CEZ has entered the UK NBP natural gas market through the ICE (InterContinental Exchange) in London.
2. 9. 2008
CEZ Group Buys 600 Megawatt Wind Farm Project in Romania from Continental Wind Partners
Prague, August 27, 2008 – Yesterday evening, CEZ Group, the leading CE power utility, and Continental Wind Partners LLC, a major renewable power developer, concluded the sale of CWP’s adjacent Fantanele and Cogealac wind farms in Romania to CEZ. The two projects will together be the largest onshore wind farm in Europe, with a total capacity of 600 megawatts, approximately double the size of the next largest fully permitted onshore wind farm in Europe, and triple the size of the largest current operational wind farm in Europe. The total investment of the CEZ Group into the project will reach € 1.1 billion.
27. 8. 2008
Chinese success- CEZ has another emission credit project from Chinese biomass power plant
Beijing, China, August 17, 2008 – Chairman of the Board of Directorst and CEO of CEZ Martin Roman and Guo Zhenjun, General Manager of Hunan Liang Renewable Energy Power Co, have today, in the Czech Olympic House, signed an agreement about a purchase of emission reductions from a prepared biomass power plant project