CZECH POWER GIANT’S FORAY INTO HEAT PRODUCTION

BY LEE ADENDORFF, MARK ROWE, ALAN OSBORN, KATHERINE DUNN, MARTINA MARECKOVA, GERARD O'DWYER and MINDY RAN The largest Czech Republic power company, ?EZ, has just made a decision to extend its footprint in heat production; announcing on July 28, 2011, that it plans to acquire Energotrans, the Czech company which supplies heat from the town of M?lník to the nearby Czech capital, Prague. Energotrans is controlled by Prague's major heat supplier, Pra?ská teplárenská. ?EZ consequently plans to build a new 800 MW combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) in M?lník, ...


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