Dominique Ristori, the Director General of the Directorate-General for Energy within the European Commission, has expressed its support for Ukraine’s stance on construction of Russian gas pipeline Nord Stream 2. Ristori said this during a briefing upon the meeting with Energy and Coal Industry Minister of Ukraine Ihor Nasalyk, the government portal reports. “Ristori has…
Ukraine boosted electricity exports to European Union countries and Moldova in the first two months of 2018 by 6.1% YoY, to 1.032 billion kWh. In particular, Hungary accounted for 60.6%, or 624.9 million kWh, while the share of Poland was 27.9%, or 288.4 million kWh. Moldova bought 96 million kWh of Ukrainian electricity (9.3%), Slovakia…
Iran has concluded an agreement with Azerbaijan for the purchase of 150 megawatt of power, a senior official said. Iran’s Energy Minister Reza Ardakania said that the agreement on his country’s power purchase from Azerbaijan was made during the recent visit of President Hassan Rouhani to Baku. The minister added that the two countries currently…
Ukraine should let gas prices be determined by the market, in line with the reforms that were implemented in 2016, IMF representative to Ukraine, Goesta Ljungman, said this in a commentary to Reuters. “We believe that it is important to let gas prices – including tariffs for households – be determined by the market, in…
About 7,000 people are employed at the construction site of the Belarusian nuclear power plant at present, Press Secretary of the Belarusian Energy Ministry Zhanna Zenkevich said during a media tour of the nuclear power plant for Belarusian and Russian reporters on March 28. As many as 41 subcontractors, including 23 Belarusian ones and 18…
Ukrainian nuclear power plants (NPPs) produced 219.49 million kWh of electricity on March 25, the press-service of Ukraine’s State Enterprise “National Nuclear Energy Generating Company Energoatom” reports. On March 26, 10 out of 15 power units were functioning at the Ukrainian power plants. It was the 66th day of the average scheduled repairs at power…
Financing of energy saving projects in Vinnytsia region grew by 13%, to UAH 262 million in 2017 compared with the previous year. This has been reported by the department of information activities and communication with public at Vinnytsia Regional State Administration. “The implementation of energy saving projects remains topical issues for the region. In 2017…