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Power: Coal-fired source of a looming dark age

By Adam Easton in Warsaw

Published: November 16 2010 15:56 | Last updated: November 16 2010 15:56

Poland’s ageing coal-dependent power industry is facing its biggest challenge in years – replacing obsolete plants while foreign investors are abandoning plans to build new capacity in the country.

Seventy per cent of the country’s power plants and transmission lines are more than 30 years old and must soon be rebuilt at an estimated cost of €50bn ($68bn).

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