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.…
Armenia is exploring the construction of a new nuclear power plant in the future and the involvement of foreign partners in the project, Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinyan said at a meeting with French ambassador to Yerevan Jonathan Lacote. Alexandre Gorbatchev from the French Atomic Energy Commission and representatives from Orano (formerly Areva) also participated…
Construction of the first 50 MW phase of the Astana EXPO 2017 wind farm is being completed. CAPEC Green Energy Director Yedil Saryev made the remarks at the Central Asian states’ renewable energy summit held in Astana. He noted that the first phase of the wind farm was planned to be launched in the middle…
Azerbaijan and Saudi Arabia will discuss expansion of cooperation in the field of energy, agriculture and the IT sector, Azerbaijan’s Finance Ministry reported. These issues will be included in the agenda of the meeting of the fifth joint intergovernmental commission of the two countries to be held on March 4. The parties will also discuss…
Armenia and Iraq are planning to launch energy cooperation, Ambassador Hrachya Poladian said after a meeting with Iraqi Minister of Electricity, Dr. Loay Al-Khatib. “The Ambassador noted the possibility of cooperation in the field of electricity transmission from Armenia to Iraq, and the use of alternative energy sources,” the Armenian Embassay said in a tweet.…
The total capacity of renewable energy facilities in Ukraine exceeded 2 GW in 2018, according to Director General of the Energy Markets Directorate of the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry, Olha Buslavets. “The installed capacity of renewable energy sources grew by half over the past year and exceeded 2 GW. According to our estimates, this…