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Government plans to implement Silesia 2.0

July 3, 2015 Katowice the City 0

Poland’s government, at its first ever session outside Warsaw, approved a multi-billion-euro plan on Tuesday to stimulate the Upper Silesia region’s industry and job market.

The „Silesia 2.0” plan calls, among others things, for tax exemptions for industries using coal and loans for modernizing Ukraine’s coal-based power plants, with the aim of increasing demand for Polish coal. There is also funding …

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Elevation of CCTW completed

October 7, 2011 Katowice the City 0

A construction work on the Clean Coal Technologies Center (CCTW) being conducted by Budus S.A. slowly draws to an end. The building’s elevation waits for last finishing touches, more works are to be done inside where the interior needs installation, plastering, glazing, painting, then furnitures and specialistic equipment.

In fact, the equipment is to be the core and the most important part of the Center as the building

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GIG starts HUGE2

September 22, 2011 Katowice the City 0

This month, the Central Mining Institute (GIG) from Katowice officially inaugurated a follow-up of HUGE project – HUGE2 Hydrogen Oriented Underground Coal Gasification for Europe – Environmental Aspects. The first meeting was organized in the “Barbara” experimental mine in Mikołów near Katowice.

The project is a response for a need of development of highly energy and …