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Energy shortfalls cast cloud over former Soviet states

Saturday, 14 June 2008


Stefan Wagstyl, Thomas Escritt, Kester Eddy, Theo Troev and Neil MacDonald

IN a remote corner of Hungary close to the Ukrainian border engineers are starting work on construction of the biggest power station in the former communist states of south-east Europe since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The first pair of 40OMW units at the euro 61.5bn ($2.3bn,