Miners want power plants

Re-opening of tender for Slovenske elektrarne (SE) attracted five new prospects. Czech CEZ and Russian RAO JES that would be interested in SE as a whole have collected the tender information materials and so joined together with the U.S. company AES the prospects that have already entered the tender last year - E.on, Enel, Electrabel, International Power and Verbund. It is no surprise that the financially weakened Electricite de France, Energie Baden-Wurttemberg or British Energy will not participate. But there are some domestic prospects as well. For instance coal mines Hornonitrianske bane Prievidza. For this company it is essential that the thermal power station in Zemianske Kostolany remains operational. Strategic Director of Hornonitrianske bane, Frantisek Verbich only recently admitted that they were looking for a partner to help them in the tender. And the last prospect is Savas Zilina that is only interested in hydraulic power stations