In a ceremony attended by Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko and Norwegian foreign minister Ine Soereide Eriksen, the Norwegian wind power developer NBT AS and its partners announced an agreement to build a 250 MW wind farm in the southern Kherson region of Ukraine. In close cooperation with leading international industrial companies and financial investors, NBT…
The completion rate of the first unit of the Belarusian nuclear power plant stands at 80%, and that of the second unit – 60%, Mikhail Filimonov, Director General of the state enterprise Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant, declared. “The readiness of the Belarusian nuclear power plant is reflected by an integrated indicator resulting from a complicated…
NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine has not been buying natural gas under a contract with Russia’s PJSC Gazprom for 1,000 days, since November 26, 2015, importing gas from the West. As reported, inconsistent prices were behind Ukraine’s refusal to buy gas on its eastern border at the end of 2015. Late in December 2017 the Arbitration…
Turkestan region governor Zhanseiit Tuimebayev met with Dal Holding Investment CO deputy director Cemalettin Ceker, the governor’s press service reports. The parties debated issues concerning attraction of investments to the development of glass-house industry in Turkestan and Kentau. According to the project proposed, up-to-date greeneries will be built in the territory of 200 ha, 80%…
Stocks of anthracite coal at Ukrainian thermal power plants (TPP) shrank by 10% on August 2-8, to 249,000 tons. At the same time, the stocks of gas coal decreased by 0.6%, from 987,000 tons to 981,000 tons, the Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Ministry’s press service said. In general, coal stocks at Ukraine’s TPPs fell…
General Electric will spend EUR 18.8 million on a project designed to upgrade the Yerevan Thermal Power Plant, the Ministry of Energy Infrastructures and Natural Resources of Armenia said. According to the ministry, the modernization activities are aimed at increasing the efficiency and reliability of the plant. The modernization includes renovation of the gas turbine…
The Austrian Wind Energy Company O.W. WIND.KG and the Kherson Regional State Administration have signed a memorandum of cooperation in the implementation of projects for the construction of wind power plants in Kherson region. “On August 7 the Kherson Regional State Administration and the Austrian Wind Energy Company O.W. WIND.KG signed a memorandum of cooperation.…