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The President of the Republic expressed his concern about global warming from October 5 to 9, 2020 in the inaugural presentation of the Thematic Week of Sustainability, which aims to transmit the message of sustainability to society as a whole through of educators and students. In his speech, he revealed: Hungary is closing the last major coal-fired power plant, Mátra Thermal Power Station.
Carpathian Basin Sustainability Week, primarily for schools, began on Monday, with János Áder giving the opening lecture, Index wrote. Among other things, János Áder said he feared a climate catastrophe, whose most important task is to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, the so-called decarbonisation. According to him, the growing demand for energy is still largely met by coal-fired power plants, the replacement of which by renewable energy sources is an increasingly urgent task. He then revealed an interesting detail that no one in government has talked about until now:
“We will close the last large coal-fired power plant, Mátra Thermal Power Station, we will increase the capacity of the solar power plant several times, with the help of nuclear and solar energy we will achieve 90 percent carbon dioxide-free electricity in Hungary in 10 years, will begin the replacement of buses used in public transportation, hundreds of acres of afforestation program will be launched, “he said.
However, the repurchase of the Mátra Central from Lőrinc Mészáros cost the state a lot of public money, and did not seem like a good deal, as the plant had a loss of more than 10 billion in 2017 and 2018 due to the drastic increase in carbon dioxide prices. .
In March of this year, Gergely Gulyás, head of the Prime Minister’s Office, reported that the Hungarian state had bought the coal-fired power plant for 17 billion 440 million guilders, and that the government’s position in the spring was to he planned to convert it in accordance with climate protection considerations. In July, however, it turned out that the Mátra power plant hurt taxpayers much more than this, as Magyar Villamos Művek asked the state to release a total of HUF 75.14 billion to close the deal.
Viktor Orbán justified the sale primarily by the need to save the livelihood of the power plant workers and their families, but it seems more certain that they tried to save Lőrinc Mészáros from a loss-making business.
There are 2,100 jobs connected directly and 10,000 indirectly to the power station in the area, and the number of affected family members may be around 27,000.
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