Toshiba has been selected to conduct a feasibility study (FS) in Bulgaria, under "Feasibility Studies for Development of Projects Applying Systems Making Highly Efficient Use of Coal", a program sponsored by Japan's New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO). The Bulgarian FS will run from July 2011 through to the end of March 2012. The FS is based on the Japanese government's policy of promoting economic growth in Japan while reducing global emissions of CO2 by deploying Japan's leading energy and high efficiency technologies overseas, and will see Toshiba investigate the construction of a super critical coal-fired thermal power plant with carbon capture and storage (CCS) facilities in the Maritsa East thermal power plant complex in south-central Bulgaria. Toshiba will conduct the FS with support from other parties, including Schlumberger Carbon Services, Sofia University and Taisei Corporation.