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Ústí nad Labem Region - The largest local investor will invest CZK 100 bn in the transformation and development of the energy sector in the region by 2030. It will build new heat and electricity sources and contribute to the development of education and the preservation of jobs. Further investments will follow until 2040.
* The ČEZ Group is the most important investor in the Ústí nad Labem Region and generates 7 percent of its GDP. Now ČEZ wants to increase its investments in the region.
* ČEZ wants to invest CZK 100 bn in the region by 2030, which is roughly equivalent to two to three times the region’s annual budget.
* Investments will be made mainly in the construction of new heating and power plants and the provision of long-term heat supplies to existing customers in Ústí, Chomutov, Teplice, Klášterec nad Ohří, Jirkov, Bílina and other towns, the construction of gas-fired power plants and renewable sources, and other development projects such as lithium processing.
* New low- and zero-emission energy sources will replace outdated coal in electricity and heat for decades to come and will contribute to the greening of the region.
* The investment will provide jobs for workers in the coal industry, and ČEZ will also intensify cooperation with schools and in science and research.
* ČEZ plans to bring further investments to the region by 2040, as a part of the development of other sources of electricity and heat, e.g. a small modular reactor in Tušimice.
* One of the investments is the acquisition of a 100% stake in ACTHERM Distribuce, which provides heat distribution from the Prunéřov II power plant in Chomutov.

*ČEZ plans to invest tens of billions of crowns in the Moravian-Silesian Region by 2040.
*The first investment is the construction of a modern low-emission heating and power plant in Dětmarovice.
*ČEZ has concluded long-term contracts for heat purchase with Orlová and Bohumín.
*The heating and power plant’s modernisation will also help improve the environment. Emissions of CO2, sulphur, nitrogen and particulate matter are estimated to be reduced by between 94% and 98%.
*ČEZ also intends to develop small modular reactors, renewable energy sources and batteries in the region.

The Moravian-Silesian region is one of the most important for ČEZ and its future energy plans in the Czech Republic, so the largest Czech energy group wants to operate here in the coming decades. By 2040, ČEZ plans to invest tens of billions of crowns in the region. In the first phase this is mainly about an investment of around CZK 2 bn in the construction of a new modern low-emission heating and power plant in Dětmarovice. Today, ČEZ concluded long-term contracts for the purchase of heat from the new sources with Orlová and Bohumín. The modernisation of the heating and power plant will also help improve the environment. Emissions of CO2, sulphur, nitrogen and particulate matter are estimated to fall by between 94 and 98 percent ČEZ also intends to develop small modular reactors, renewable energy sources and batteries in the region.

*In Q1, drivers took over 1.8 m kWh of green electricity from the ČEZ network
*This is 65% more than in the first three months of 2023
*The total capacity of ČEZ’s network of public charging stands for e-cars exceeded 51 MW
*The 39% year-on-year growth in capacity is driven mainly by the installation of ultra-fast stations
*The busiest stations were in Prague and on the D1, D5 and D10 motorways

Over the last 12 months, the network of ČEZ public charging stations for electric vehicles has grown by 135 stands. Every fourth newly built charging station had a power output of 150 kW or more, which allows drivers to recharge their batteries for up to 150 km of driving within 10 minutes. The number of registered customers has also increased to 27,231 drivers due to discounted charging. All this is reflected in the volume of emission-free electricity consumed. While in the first three months of last year drivers drew approximately 1 m kWh from ČEZ stands, this year it is already over 1.8 m kWh. The network is growing thanks to funds from the Operational Programme Transport and from the ČEZ Group’s own investments.

* The Hodonín power plant stabilises year-round supply of electricity and heat
* This will be enabled by a new water-cooling method, using air in ventilator towers
* The currently employed flow-through cooling, using water from the river, had limited capacity, particularly in summer
* Biomass burning, which commenced in 2009, is now the main fuel
* The cross-border supply of heat to Holíč, Slovakia is unique European terms

After several months of testing, the brand-new cooling system at the Hodonín power plant has been transitioned into a one-year trial run. The advanced Israeli cooling-tower technology will cut cooling-water consumption by 97%, from 59 million cubic metres to less than 2 million per year. The ventilator cooling tower is broken up into 4 cells, each up to only 12.5 metres high, so that the facility does not disrupt the skyline. The Hodonín power plant is a low-emission ČEZ source that started to burn biomass in 2009.