Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have agreed on mutual supplies of electricity, press service of the Ministry of Energy and Industry of Kyrgyzstan reports. The agreement was reached on mutual supplies of electrical energy in the amount of up to 750 million kilowatt-hours at a conditional price. The supply of electricity from Uzbekistan will take place from…
Ukraine in January-February reduced electricity exports 24-fold YoY, to 58.9 million kWh, the Energy Ministry said in a statement. “In the two months of 2021, electricity exports amounted to 58.9 million kWh, 1.38 billion kWh below the volume recorded in the first two months of 2020,” the report says. (UNIAN/Business World Magazine)
In February, Latvia’s ability to cover electricity consumption with local energy generation continued growing – consumption was covered at 94.5%, up by 4.3% MoM and the highest index since March 2020, according to the report composed by Latvia’s transmission system’s operator AS Augstsprieguma tikls (AST). In total Latvia domestically produced 589,865 MWh of electricity in…
Presidents of Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan agreed on joint operation of hydropower facilities, Shavkat Mirziyoyev said following the talks with Sadyr Japarov. According to him, the countries start implementation of large hydropower projects. “Our companies are working out the issues of joint construction and operation of hydropower projects. These are very serious and large objects. We…
Tajikistan plans to buy 250 million cubic meters of natural gas from Uzbekistan in 2021, Tajiktransgas Vice Chairman Shavkat Shoimov has announced. “The agreement on delivery of 250 million cubic meters of gas was concluded between Tajiktransgas and Uztransgas,” he said. This is 11% more than the volume of gas imported last year. Tajikistan increased…
Minister of the Environment Tonis Molder (Center) said he would not rule out using hydrogen and nuclear energy as an alternative to oil shale. Molder noted that while the new government had set its sights on exiting the production of oil shale energy and later oil shale in general as an energy source, the jobs…
Ukraine in 2020 reduced foreign currency revenue from electricity exports by 25.9% against 2019, to $280.8 million. Hungary bought some 46.3% of Ukrainian electricity sold abroad ($130 million), while the share of Poland was 30.2% ($85 million) and that of Romania – 17.7% ($49.7 million), according to Ukraine’s State Customs Service. Electricity exports to other…