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New companies often struggle to find a good location to settle in, and post-industrial sites represent an untapped potential for future economic development. The Marshal’s Office of Silesia Voivodeship, in partnership with the Central Mining Institute (Główny Instytut Górnictwa-GIG) in Katowice...
Coal plays an important role within the Czech Republic’s energy system: in 2017, almost 50% of electricity was produced with coal, while roughly 75% of heating is dependent on coal. Despite this, the country has seen - as many European countries have - a strong decline in coal mining over the last...
During the communist era, Wałbrzych, a town in Lower-Silesia, was a significant mining and industrial hot spot in Poland. However, economic restructuring in the 1990s led to a significant decline in regional industry. To counter this trend, the region founded the ‘Invest-park’. The Wałbrzych Special...
The Matra Power Plant is an example of a coal power plant transitioning into an industry cluster in which renewables play an increasingly important role. These efforts do not only retain the electricity generation capacity, but keep jobs in the region. The concept includes the development of an...