For the first time in its history, the National Bank of Ukraine has won a transparency award of the prestigious international Central Banking Awards. “The National Bank of Ukraine considerably increased its transparency in the past year, and in the preceding three years, despite exceptionally difficult circumstances,” reads the statement on the website of the…
The recent bout of cold weather and snow across Estonia has been accompanied by near-record levels of electricity consumption. At 10.00 am EET on January 22, five-minute average electricity consumption was recorded at 1,549 megawatts. Estonian electricity consumption was very close to the record high of all time that day, when the five-minute average consumption…
Karaganda region has started its large-scale transition to green technologies. The 100 MW solar power plant, recognized as the largest in Central Asia, was put into operation in Saran. 307,000 voltaic panels are stretching over 164 ha to convert solar power into electrical energy. The solar panels can produce about 10-15 MW even on the…
The size of non-observed (hidden and informal) economy in the sphere of production in 2017 amounted to 125.2 billion soms, or 23.6% of Kyrgyzstan’s GDP, the National Statistical Committee of Kyrgyzstan says. According to it, the decline in the share of the non-observed economy to GDP was recorded in the wholesale and retail trade and…
The volume of natural gas consumption in Sumy region fell by 6.2% in 2018, according to the press service of PJSC Sumygaz. “In 2018, Sumy region consumed 733.2 million cubic meters of gas, down by 48.2 million cubic meters or by 6.2% YoY. Since 2011, the annual volume of blue fuel distributed among consumer groups…