Turkmenistan is developing a project for construction of a new gas chemical complex near the Kiyanly village of the country’s Balkan region. The complex is designed for processing 2 billion cubic meters of natural gas and 117,000 tons of sodium chloride. It will produce 390,000 tons of polypropylene, 200,000 tons of linear low-density polyethylene, 100,000…
The modernization of the Bishkek thermal power plant in Kyrgyzstan is completed. President Almazbek Atambayev will open the renewed heat and power plant. It is noted that after the works, the installed capacity of the TPP reached 812 megawatts. It increased by 300 megawatts due to commissioning of two new power units. Another difference is…
National Energy Company Ukrenergo intends to draw on international financial organizations (IFOs) as the source for its investment projects, Ukrenergo chief Vsevolod Kovalchuk said at a presentation in Kyiv while briefing on the company’s plans for 2018. “We will complete current large investment projects with the use of funds from tariffs, but we will not…
The first unit of the Belarusian nuclear power plant will be commissioned in December 2019, Anatoly Bondar, Chief Engineer of the state enterprise Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant, said. It was reported earlier that the first unit was scheduled to come online in 2019, and the second one in 2020. “The deadline for the commissioning of…
Turkmenistan-China gas relationship may be viewed as one country’s over-dependence on another, Sean Roberts, an expert on Central Asia and Associate Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, said commenting on the construction of Tajik section of the Turkmenistan-Uzbekistan-Tajikistan-Kyrgyzstan-China gas pipeline launched last month. “On one hand, it is easy to understand why Central Asia…
Services worth $281.9 million were rendered in H1 as part of the general contract to build the Belarusian nuclear power plant, according to the Belarusian Energy Ministry website. In H1 work continued to build the first and second power-generating units of the Belarusian nuclear power plant as well as the facilities the entire power plant…
In recent years, Latvia has managed to reduce the electricity price difference with other Baltic neighboring countries, as reported by Enefit Chairman Janis Bethers. “Although Latvian households still pay the most for electricity, these expenses will continue declining. The price difference with Estonia, which historically has the lowest wholesale prices, has declined nearly 2-fold,” says…