A bill aimed at slashing VAT on energy bills is being held-up at the Riigikogu – partly because the chamber is nearing the end of a four-week winter recess in any case – but also as the two coalition partners, Reform and Center, aim to patch up differences on the bill. While Reform opposed cutting…
Lithuania could consider building small-scale nuclear power plants in the future to speed up the restructuring of its energy sector, the President Gitanas Nauseda has said. “We can discuss, for example, small-scale nuclear power plants. For the time being, we have to focus on the need to produce green energy and diversify our energy sources,…
From January, local municipality governments will begin accepting applications for energy price compensation. Many municipalities have hired additional people to prepare for the avalanche of applications set to come in. Tallinn is set to begin accepting energy price compensation applications from January 17. The city has told people to wait for February with their bills…
Gas transit from Russia to Slovakia through Ukraine dropped 67% from year-start, the Slovak gas transmission operator, Eustream reported. On December 31, 2021, the corresponding application was for 83.8 million cubic meters, while on January 1 it fell to 49.5 million cubic meters, on January 2 – to 35.5 million cubic meters and on January…
From March 2022 onward the heating tariff of JSC Rigas siltums may increase by another 6.7%, according to the official entry in the Latvian Herald. From November 1 clients of JSC Rigas siltums pay 66.76 EUR/MWh for heating energy. From March 2022 the price will be 71.22 EUR/MWh. According to JSC Rigas siltums, tariff changes…
Uzbekistan’s Uzbekneftegaz JSC and the Oil and Gas Research and Design Institute of Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR discussed the possibilities of joint implementation of projects in Uzbekistan. Reportedly, Chairman of the Board of Uzbekneftegaz Mehriddin Abdullayev and Director General of SOCAR’s Oil and Gas Research and Design Institute Fakhraddin Ismayilov held a meeting to…
Ukraine: gas deal signed with Hungary Gas TSO of Ukraine and FGSZ, Hungary’s gas transmission system operator, have concluded an agreement for the supply of a guaranteed volume of natural gas from Hungary to Ukraine starting from January 1, 2022, Sergiy Makogon, CEO Gas TSO of Ukraine, LLC, has announced. “I have good news on…