PRAGUE/VIENNA (Reuters) - Czech utility CEZ shuttered a 720-megawatt coal-fired power plant north of Prague and Austria's Verbund closed four of its 10 hydropower stations on the Danube river amid central Europe's worst flooding in a decade.
CEZ shut its Melnik 2 and Melnik 3 units and said it would limit supplies to four northern districts due to safety concerns after declaring a state of emergency as waters from the Elbe river overflowed its banks.
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