Energy Minister Sebastian Burduja said on Thursday, on the occasion of the completion of refurbishment works at Unit 5 of the Rovinari Thermal Power Plant of the Oltenia Energy Complex (CEO) that "one cannot shut down coal-fired facilities without putting something else in place." "We cannot afford to retire coal-fired generators without replacing them with gas-fired power plants, so we cannot give up continuous coal-fired power generation without having a replacement source of energy. (...)