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“We closed the last large coal-fired power plant, the Mátra Thermal Power Plant,” President János Áder said literally on Monday in the opening speech of the Carpathian Basin Sustainability Week, which is aimed mainly at schools . Hvg.hu asked if this was really the government’s plan.
The Presidency of the Republic wrote to the portal: “The video message of the President was made for the School Sustainability Week, and in the language of children, with simplicity and substance, he said what it means. But that does not mean that the company that employs the people of Gyöngyös will cease to exist.
2,100 jobs are connected directly and 10,000 indirectly to the power plant in the Gyöngyös area, the number of affected family members may be around 27,000.
Thus, there will be no plant closure, which the Cabinet has so far planned will happen, that is, coal units and other equipment closely related to coal power generation will be demolished within the framework of Mátrai Erőm. Zrt. will be built that will utilize the existing infrastructure on site, such as entry points to the power grid and more.
The Hungarian state spent a total of HUF 75,140 million on the power plant due to its buy-back from Lőrinc Mészáros. The plant posted losses of more than $ 10 billion in 2017 and 2018 due to the drastic increase in carbon quota prices.
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