DTEK energy holding since early October has increased coal stocks at warehouses of thermal power plants (TPPs) by 173,000 tons, to 792,000 tons, DTEK Energo Generation Director Serhiy Kurylenko reported. Kurylenko said that at present DTEK’s TPPs burned 50,000 tons of coal a day on average. Around 65,000 tons of coal arrive every day to…
Belarus has chosen 22 suitable locations, where up to 2,000 wind power stations can be installed. First Deputy Minister for Natural Resources and Environment Protection Iya Malkina made a statement to this effect at the 21st Belarusian Energy and Ecology Congress. With 2,000 wind power stations made operational, Belarus could save up to 1 million…
Russia’s Rosatom is looking to get involved in the U.K. nuclear industry, spurred by Prime Minister Theresa May’s decision to approve a deal with China to build Britain’s first atomic plant in 20 years, Bloomberg reported. The state-owned nuclear company’s participation in future projects depends on how willing the U.K. is to financially support other…
Dominique Ristori, Director-General of the Directorate-General for Energy within the European Commission, visited a Klaipeda-based liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal controlled by AB Klaipedos Nafta. Ristori praised an alternative gas supply model chosen by Lithuania, Klaipedos Nafta says in a press release. During a two-day visit to Lithuania, Ristori was interested in the targets of…
Public joint-stock company Ukrnafta has switched to crude oil refining on a tolling basis for the entire volume of oil produced by the company at Kremenchuk oil refinery, Ukrnafta head Mark Rollins reported. “Since May, we have been buying our own crude oil at auctions via an intermediary. We would like to do this directly,…
Public joint-stock company Ukrnafta intends to create its own company to trade with gas and try to import gas from Europe, Ukrnafta head Mark Rollins reported. “We plan to create a trading company, first to trade with own resources, but we will also make experiments and buy some volumes of gas in Europe”, he said.…
Ukraine’s State Property Fund (SPF) announced open auctions to sell property of Kostiantynivska and Myheiska hydroelectric powers plants (HPPs) located on the Southern Bug River. The starting price of the plants is 13.761 million UAH and 10.863 million UAH respectively. The auction to sell Kostiantynivska HPP (Mykolaiv region) will be held on November 22, and…