Azerbaijan enjoys a vast potential of renewable energy sources and strives to make use of it. In 2018 electricity produced from renewable sources will exceed 10% of the total energy generated in Azerbaijan, Deputy Chairman of The State Agency on Alternative and Renewable Energy Sources of the Republic of Azerbaijan Jamil Malikov declared. It is…
DTEK Renewables and GE Renewable Energy entered into an agreement on the construction of the second phase of the Prymorska Wind Electricity Plant (WEP) with a capacity of 100 MW. The plant will be equipped with 26 wind turbines of the GE 3.8 MW class, which will be delivered to Ukraine and installed at the…
The State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine (SNRIU) has decided to extend the operating license of unit No. 4 of National Nuclear Energy Generating Company Energoatom’s Zaporizhia nuclear power plant (NPP) for another decade after its installed life is over. The relevant decision was made by the SNRIU Board on October 11. The SNRIU in…
Representatives of Uzbekistan’s state-run energy operator Uzbekenergo and the World Bank Group held a meeting to discuss reforms in the electricity sector of Uzbekistan. The parties discussed a plan on expansion of generating capacity at the lowest cost, research on tariffs, institutional reforms in the electricity sector and renewable energy development. The delegations of Uzbekenergo…
Ukraine has unveiled a solar plant in Chornobyl, just across from where a power station, now encased in a giant sarcophagus, caused the world’s worst nuclear disaster three decades ago. Built in a contaminated area, which remains largely uninhabitable and where visitors are accompanied by guides carrying radiation meters, 3,800 panels produce energy to power…
The State Committee of Industry, Energy and Subsoil Use offers to check energy facilities without prior notification. Under the law on the Procedure for Conducting Inspections of Entrepreneurship Entities, objects with a high degree of risk are checked not more than once a year. The prescription is issued for a group of objects. But experts…
The Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine has compiled and approved the Forecast Balance of Electricity for 2019, according to which an increase in electricity exports from Ukraine is projected at 5.3%, to 6.42 billion kWh in the next year compared to the Forecast Balance for the current year of June 15. According…