The Thermal Power Plant Ljubljana (TE-TOL) is the largest combined heat and power producer in Slovenia. According to director Blaž Košorok plans are underway to ensure it's a position the plant maintains in coming years - while also respecting the environment.

Termoelektrarna Toplarna Ljubljana, TE-TOL, a state-controlled heat and power producer and supplier serving the Slovenian capital, has invited prequalification applications by September 10 for the supply and installation of a gas turbine and heat recovery steam generator and associated ancillary equipment for a new combined cycle heat and power plant that it plans to build at the site of its existing coal-fired cogeneration complex in the east of the capital. The state-controlled heat and power producer expects to complete contract negotiations by May 2009 and for the new gas-fired plant to enter commercial service in the year 2012, the company’s development director Janez Rupar told Platts July 23.

The modern world as we know it today no longer knows how to – and cannot – do without electricity and heat. Put simply, light and heat have become essential and invaluable human goods. And the energy sector? This has become one of the most important (and the most lucrative?) branches of the economy – yet growing energy needs on the one hand and ever increasing environmental requirements on the other are posing enormous developmental and business challenges to energy producers.