State enterprise Ukrenergo expects the increase in electricity consumption during the 2016/2017 heating season by 3-4% in comparison with the past season, company acting director Vsevolod Kovalchuk has said. “We foresee 3-4% more than last season. Although the overall volume of the planned power supply for next year is 7 billion kilowatt-hours less than was…
Belarus’ cement plants are expected to increase the use of dried peat as fuel to 180,000 tons by 2020, up by 50% from the 2016 level, Belarus’ Energy Ministry reported. Belarus has been actively promoting the use of dried peat as an alternative fuel at cement plants – they are expected to burn 120,000 tons…
Joint construction of new power plants by Azerbaijan and Iran will enhance energy stability and export potential of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Etibar Pirverdiyev, head of Azerenergy OJSC, the largest electrical power producer in Azerbaijan, reported. Pirverdiyev said that it was necessary to begin implementation of this project as soon as possible. “This project is very…
Azerbaijan plans to increase the share of alternative and renewable energy sources in the country’s energy balance to 20% by 2020, Head of Azerbaijan’s State Agency for Alternative and Renewable Energy Akim Badalov said. He said that currently the share of alternative energy in Azerbaijan was 16%. “By 2020, we plan to increase this figure…
Alternative and renewable energy sources won’t be able to completely replace the traditional ones, Azerbaijan’s Energy Minister Natig Aliyev said, according to the message of the country’s Ministry of Energy. “Despite the work done in this sphere, the share of renewable energy on Azerbaijan’s energy balance is not so high for now, and it’s necessary…
Russian gas giant Gazprom has increased its transit request through Ukraine to 277 million cubic meters daily, Maxim Belyavsky, spokesman for gas pipeline system operator Ukrtransgaz, said in a Facebook post. “A daily order for transit of 277 million cubic meters has arrived from Gazprom today. As far as I remember, this is the highest…
Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Minister Ihor Nasalyk predicts that the nuclear power plants (NPPs) share of total power generation in Ukrainian power grid would grow from current 60% to 65% at the end of October. “We have brought the share of nuclear power generation from 47% in May to 60% today, and in a…