Natural gas stocks in Ukraine’s underground storage facilities (USFs) have shrunk by 35.7%, or by 6.14 billion cubic meters, to 11.053 billion cubic meters since November 7, 2018 when Ukraine started pumping out gas from its reserves amid the heating season. As of February 2, gas reserves in the country’s USFs were 10.6% down from…
Head of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU) Yuriy Terentyev says the committee does not consider Ukraine’s largest private energy holding DTEK – controlled by businessman Rinat Akhmetov – to be a monopolist on the electricity market. “The mere fact of having a significant market share is not enough. The electricity market is now regulated,…
President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev visited Forish district of Jizzakh region and the site where the first nuclear power plant of Central Asia would be built in 8-9 years. The head of state spoke with the leaders of the UzAtom Agency and the Rosatom Corporation. He noted that the project was a new strategic area…
The opportunity for Czech companies can represent the fields that are in priority to be developed by Azerbaijan’s government, to diversify the economy and support the development of the non-oil sector, Marta Novakova, Minister of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic reported. “These are mainly agriculture, chemical and manufacturing industry, engineering, services (especially transport,…
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 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…