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European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
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AES Borsodi Energetikai, the Hungarian subsidiary of the US-based global power company AES, is to dismiss some 132 employees as of January 2012. The company filed for bankruptcy protection in July 2011 and liquidation proceedings started in November 2011.
The company operated power plants in Tiszapalkonya and Kazincbarcika, but the production was no longer profitable. According to press reports, this loss of profits is due to a long-term fall in wholesale electricity prices, rising coal and biomass prices, and increasing carbon dioxide emission costs.
Eurofound (2011), AES Borsodi Energetikai, Bankruptcy in Hungary, factsheet number 73247, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/73247.