Press Release: Commissioner Piebalgs visits the construction site of an innovative clean coal plant in Italy

Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs is to visit the construction site of Torrevaldaliga Nord project, an advanced clean coal power plant in the Italian town of Civitavecchia, near Rome. The project has recently won the Powergen Award. “Clean coal technologies contribute to the three core objectives of the new European Energy Policy: security of supply, fight against climate change and competitiveness of the European economy. The development of low carbon plants, like this one in Civitavecchia, should be one of the common EU objectives that the Commission wants to put forward in its EU Strategic Energy Review”, Commissioner Piebalgs said.