Mecsek Hills Power Station

The Mecsek Hills UCG Project is a proposed underground coal gasification (UCG) power station for southern Hungary by Wildhorse Energy. The project aims to produce synthetic gas (syngas) through the partial in-situ combustion of coal, which will be fed into a power plant to produce electricity.

Wildhorse has coal and coalbed methane exploration licence areas covering an area of approximately 420 km² in the Mecsek coal formation in the Pécs region in Southern Hungary. Its website states that, after exploration, "Wildhorse has determined that the Váralja target area [in the Pécs region] is ideally suited for UCG and has been selected as the location for the Company’s first UCG project." The Project Pre-Feasibility Study was completed in the first quarter of 2012.

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External Articles

 * András Perger, "The role of coal in the Hungarian electricity sector with special attention to the use of lignite," Energy Club, November 2009