Placing floating solar panels in dams of hydroelectric plants Lithuanian Business Support Agency sees potential in the innovation and has granted 235,000 euros for the project at the Kruonis hydroelectric plant. The first stage of the project is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2021. State-owned enterprise Lietuvos Energijos Gamyba will be developing…
Vice Minister of Energy Magzum Mirzagaliyev informed about preliminary results of the country’s gasification and plans for the future. “As for gasification, in 2014 we adopted the country’s general gasification scheme that reflected priority areas and domestic demand in gas. The general gasification scheme is financed from the national budget, national operators’ revenues and other…
At least 25 private companies sell electricity in Kyrgyzstan, the State Agency for Regulation of Fuel and Energy Complex and Subsoil Use reported. An average set tariff is 181.6 tyiyns per kilowatt-hour. On average, private companies buy electricity from Electric Stations OJSC at 101.43 tyiyns per kilowatt-hour. The tariff for non-domestic consumers is 223.54 tyiyns,…
Investors will build seven solar power plants in different districts of Zhytomyr region, the press service of Zhytomyr Regional State Administration has reported. “After signing memorandums of cooperation with Head of Zhytomyr Regional State Administration Ihor Hundych, investors are launching seven projects to create alternative energy sources,” the report says. In particular, industrial solar power…
Some 19 solar power plants with a total capacity of 55 MW operate in Khmelnytsky region, President Petro Poroshenko stated at a meeting of the Regional Development Council in Khmelnytsky region. “There are 19 solar power plants with a total capacity of 55 MW in the territory of Khmelnytsky region,” Poroshenko said. In addition, according…
Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP), shut down a decade ago and now being decommissioned, invited bids for the construction of a 100-million euro near surface repository for low and intermediate level short-lived radioactive waste, known as the B25-2 project. The winning bidder will have to build two groups of reinforced concrete vaults for a final…
Enefit Green, the renewables subsidiary of electricity generation company Eesti Energia, has seen a ten-fold increase in its electricity generation, the company reports. Enefit Green produced 124 GWh of electricity from its wind farms in February, ten times more than the previous year and 30% more than the previous month, according to a press release.…