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PM Tudose: Mintia thermal power plant is highly important for the safety of the national energy system
Mintia thermal power plant within the Hunedoara Energy Complex (CEH) is highly important for the safety of the national energy system and all efforts are being made to help it become "an energy pearl" again, premier Mihai Tudose stated on Friday in Deva.
"The entire flow is important from the point of view of the national energy system. We are talking about Romania's energy safety and not all efforts have been made so far to reposition Mintia on the energy map where it once was - where it was conceived to be in the seventies, when it provided more than 10 percent of Romania's total energy. There are great chances and we are striving to begin to reinstate Mintia as a Romanian energy pearl. It is a Government's commitment," the Prime Minister said.
The premier paid a visit on Friday morning to the thermal power plant of Mintia, where, according to him, he talked to the company's leaders and the unions. He mentioned that there are two investors interested in this energy producers.
Asked why he chose to visit Deva municipality, Mihai Tudose replied that all the members of the Cabinet will travel to the country to verify on the ground whether the information in the "papers" corresponds to the reality in the territory.
The Prime Minister is on Friday on a working visit in Hunedoara county, on which occasion he made a stop at the building site of the Lugoj-Deva motorway, at the Mintia power plant and the Emergency County Hospital in Deva. The premier's visit will continue on Saturday, in Petrosani.