Annual report - HSE

1.5 Chronology of important events
in 2012
January
• On 3 January, Alstom and TEŠ entered into an agreement regulating the method of
liabilities settlement in the period before the issuance of the government guarantee for
financing the construction of the TEŠ replacement Unit 6.
• On 12 January, DEM presented the procedure of initiative for NSP of the HPP Hrastje-
Mota to the Strategic Council of the Pomurje Development Institute Murska Sobota.
• On 16 January, PV reached the most significant daily extraction progress in 2012 with 8.6
meters at extraction site G3/B, despite challenging production circumstances.
• SENG achieved an extension for the pilot operations in the PSP Avče facility until 6 January
2014.
• HESS obtained declarations for operations of the production units HPP Boštanj and HPP
Arto-Blanca.
February
• On 2 February, a group of MPs submitted a proposal for the Act Regulating Guarantee
of Republic of Slovenia for Liabilities under Long-Term Loan of 440 Million Euros
Made to Termoelektrarna Šoštanj, d.o.o. by European Investment Bank for Financing
Termoelektrarna Šoštanj 600 MW Replacement Unit-6 Installation Project (ZPODPTEŠ).
• On 14 February, the PV miners achieved the most important daily progress at the
construction site, i.e. 16.8 metres during a 4-shift work at k.-130/B site for haulage
roadway.
• On 15 February 2012, TEŠ handed over the area of boiler room of the replacement Unit 6
to Alstom and Alstom started with the preparations for installation.
• At its 3rd session on 23 February 2012, the Government of the Republic of Slovenia
expressed its readiness to assume additional risk with issuing its guarantee and, therefore,
its support to the ZPODPTEŠ proposal under certain conditions.
• In February 2012, the Supreme Court dismissed the request by the TEŠ Trade Union
to review the verdict of the Higher Labour and Social Court in Ljubljana, which had
confirmed the verdict of the Labour Court in Celje that the strike in TEŠ in November 2010
was illegal.
• SENG obtained operating permit for the HPP Doblar I turbine 3.
• PV became one of the first coal mines in Europe and worldwide to have mobile phones
coverage underground.
• Upon opening the new coal mine in Mariovo, Macedonia, PV entered into the contract
on design and preparation of technical documentation.
March
• On 7 March, PV reached the most important general progress in pit roadways construction
with 49.8 metres excavated.
• On 13 March 2012, Alstom started with the main steel construction installation of the Unit
6 boiler room.
• On 15 March, formal opening of restructured boiler room in Planina in Kranj took place;
the investor was the company Soenergetika.
• On 20 March, the Supervisory Board was appointed at the first General Meeting of the
company SRESA.
• SENG took over the reconstructed turbine 3, the operations of which were launched at
HPP Doblar I, and started with reconstruction works on turbine 2.
April
• On 19 April the National Assembly discussed on ZPODPTEŠ for the first time and voted
for the guarantee granting.
• SENG successfully completed technical inspection (hereinafter ‘TI’) of the left threesegment
gate within the reconstruction of hydromechanical equipment at Jez Podsedlo
and repairs of the PSP Avče generator, which enabled operations to be launched.
May
• On 17 May, the Government of the Republic of Slovenian amended Article 1 of the
proposal for ZPODPTEŠ.
• On 24 May, PV achieved the most important daily extraction production with 13,470
tonnes of coal at mining site –65/A.
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