The power plant expansion plans, which would have initially added a new 500 MW unit, then later changed to 600MW with construction work done by China Huadian Engineering[1] was cancelled.

[2] Other important works include the fitting of several sulfur filters at the existing power groups at a total cost of US$250 million.

Plans to decommission unit 3 by December 2022 were postponed due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and energy security concerns.

[4] It was finally shutdown on 1 June 2023, and its sulfur filters will be reused for the unit 5 modernization.

[5] All units will be decommissioned by 2030, according to the plans of reorganization by Complexul Energetic Oltenia.