The share of renewable electricity in Estonia’s total electricity consumption was 28.9% in the second quarter of this year, up from 24.7% in the same three-month period in 2020, the country’s transmission system operator Elering said on July 19. In the second quarter, Estonian power plants produced 602 gigawatt-hours of renewable electricity, up by 23%.…
The Ukrainian energy sector needs to be reformed, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal has said in his speech at the Ukrainian Energy Forum. “Ukraine’s energy sector needs to be reformed, so we must work together to make, develop and implement the best model for effective changes in Ukraine’s energy sector. In recent years, decarbonization, environmental impact…
The high temperatures of June caused Estonians to consume more electricity, increasing their electricity bills considerably. Summertime electricity consumption in Estonia is always lower during summer than in winter as longer days and warmer temperatures take care of heating homes. Still, the recent heatwaves have led Estonians to look for cooling, fans flew off the…
There will be no mass blackouts in the autumn-winter period, the head of the Electrical Energy Department of the Ministry of Energy and Industry of the Kyrgyz Republic, Marat Jeenbekov, has announced. “We will maximize the generation of electricity at the hydropower station, and the Heating and Power Plant (HPP) will be loaded at full…
The market price of electricity will come to fluctuate to a greater degree as countries switch to renewable energy and close coal and oil shale power plants. Kalev Kallemets, CEO of nuclear plant project company Fermi Energia, predicts that prices will continue to rise, while Estonian transmission network operator Elering disagrees. The past week saw…
In May, Ukraine’s total volume of electricity exports amounted to 460 million kWh, up 13.2-fold from the total volume of electricity imports, which reached 34.9 million kWh, to the press service of Ukrenergo National Power Company reported. Compared to April, Ukraine’s electricity exports increased by 21%, while imports decreased by 12.9%. “Starting from May 27,…
It is proposed to set a single tariff for the population at 1.9 soms without division for 1 kilowatt-hour of electricity, Energy Minister of Kyrgyzstan Doskul Bekmurzaev has announced at a meeting of the Committee on the Fuel and Energy Complex and Subsoil Use. According to him, a new medium-term tariff policy has been developed.…