By the end of the year, the construction of an underwater gas pipeline from the village of Ocheretyne in Donetsk region to Avdiivka should be completed, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Utility Services Hennadiy Zubko said during a working visit to Donetsk region, the press service of the…
Wind farms belonging to Enefit Green, the renewable energy arm of the Estonian state-owned energy group Eesti Energia, produced more electric energy in the first 11 months of 2017 than in all of 2016. Output from the four wind farms owned by Enefit Green totaled 190 gigawatt-hours, exceeding its 2016 total of 185.5 gigawatt-hours. 190…
Turkmenistan is globally recognized as a major producer of energy resources, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov said in an address on occasion of the professional holiday of workers of the oil and gas industry and geology. Turkmenistan’s recognition as a major producer of energy resources is clearly demonstrated by major projects implemented in the oil and gas…
Electric energy consumption in Belarus is projected to increase by 3 billion kilowatt-hours by 2020, Belarusian Deputy Energy Minister Vadim Zakrevsky announced. “Under the optimistic scenario, electricity consumption will reach some 40 billion kWh by 2020, growing by 3 billion kWh from 2017. This increase includes 2 billion kWh to be used by the real…
The national energy company Ukrenergo has drawn up a feasibility study for construction of infrastructure to transmit electricity from solar power plants with a capacity of up to 1.2 gigawatts in the Chornobyl exclusion zone. Ukrenergo presented the document at a government meeting on December 1. “The project envisages construction of a new330/110 kV substation…
Armenia has produced 5.4% more electricity in January-October against the same period last year, the National Statistical Service said. 6,313 billion kWh of electricity were produced in the country in the reporting period, up from last year’s 5,991 billion kWh. Meanwhile, 640 solar panels were manufactured in the first ten months of 2017, including 300…
The national energy company Ukrenergo in January-October increased transmission of electricity through the backbone power grids by 3.9% (by 3.565 billion kWh) compared to the same period in 2016, to 93.858 billion kWh. According to a report posted on the company’s website, the cost of electricity transmission services rose by 20.8% over the ten months…