President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has signed the law on certification of transmission system operator in line with the European Union’s requirements. On May 12, President Zelensky signed the Law of Ukraine “On amending certain legislative acts of Ukraine regarding certification of transmission system operator”, which was approved by the Verkhovna Rada on April 15.…
The Cabinet of Ministers has decided to keep the price of electricity for household consumers at the level of UAH 1.68 per kWh, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said at a government meeting on April 28. “The price of electricity for the population remains at UAH 1.68 per kWh. The government extends the regime of the…
“Too much attention has been paid to energy independence in recent years. We have spent $1 billion on this, but in the end, we live with a shortage of electricity,” honored power engineer of Kyrgyzstan Kaliy Rakhimov has said at a round-table conference. According to him, the energy system has not seen any development for…
“We are forced to introduce temporary mechanisms that are able to restrain the growth of electricity consumption,” the Minister of Energy and Industry of Kyrgyzstan Kubanychbek Turdubaev has declared. According to him, the decision to increase the limit of electricity consumption in winter to 1,000 kilowatt-hours was made so that consumers could save money and…
Energy Ministry of Uzbekistan has 19 inked an Investment Agreement for the construction of a new thermal power plant (TPP) in the Surkhandarya region and a Power Purchase Agreement with the Dutch company Stone City Energy. The $1.2-billion, 1,560MW TPP is set to be commissioned at the end of 2024. Stone City is to design,…
Siemens AG and Stone City (the Netherlands) are planning to modernize four thermal power plants in Tashkent, the German conglomerate has said following a meeting in the Uzbek capital. The meeting discussed cooperation with the company in the field of energy, in particular, the construction of power plants and thermal stations, as well as the…
Turkish Aksa Enerji is intending to build two 470 MW and $300 million worth of power plants in the Tashkent region of Uzbekistan, the Energy Ministry reports. The stations are expected to generate 3.9 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity per year. The power plants are set to be built on 7 hectares of land in the…