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