Posts Tagged ‘Bulgaria’

Research and Markets: Sizeable Potential of Wind Energy in Central and Eastern Europe to be realised as Renewable Energy Rises in Popularity

June 25th, 2009

Dublin, Jun 24, 2009 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) — FRSU | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating — Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/e3f2c5/central_and_easter) has announced the addition of Frost & Sullivan’s new report “Central and Eastern European Wind Power Markets” to their offering.
The following study covers the development and dynamics of the wind energy industry [...]

Bulgaria needs nuclear plant funding soon-adviser

April 29th, 2009

SOFIA, April 29 (Reuters) - Funding for Bulgaria’s planned nuclear power plant at Belene must be secured soon, or the multi-billion euro project will be delayed, a consultant to the scheme said on Wednesday.
The Socialist-led government and German utility RWE (RWEG.DE) have signed a deal to build Bulgaria’s second nuclear power plant by 2014-2015 [...]

Gas deliveries still stalled in Europe

January 14th, 2009

MOSCOW, Jan. 14 (UPI) — Russia and Ukraine Wednesday bickered over gas deliveries to Europe, in spite of international efforts to broker an accord.
More than a week into the dispute, with international monitors in place to observe gas flows, Russia’s state-run energy concern Gazprom accused Ukraine’s Naftogaz of blocking deliveries intended for Europe, Deutsche Welle [...]

Slovakia to restart nuclear plant

January 12th, 2009

BRUSSELS: Starved of gas following Russia’s dispute with Ukraine, Slovakia has announced plans to restart a Soviet-era nuclear reactor in defiance of the European Union, to the fury of one of its neighbors.
The decision, made late Saturday, is expected to provoke sharp criticism at a meeting of European energy ministers in Brussels on Monday, and [...]

No natural gas to Europe from Ukraine, Russia

January 7th, 2009

Ukraine and Russia said the supply of natural gas to Europe was completely shut off Wednesday, but each side blamed the other for the cut-off, which comes as Europe faces a wave of freezing temperatures.
A spokesman for the Ukrainian state-run gas company, Naftogaz Ukrainy, told CNN that Russian gas giant Gazprom had turned off all [...]

Russia accuses Ukraine of stealing gas

January 2nd, 2009

Reuters
Russia accused Ukraine of stealing gas destined for the rest of Europe today, a day after cutting supplies to its neighbour in a contract dispute.
The volumes Russian export monopoly Gazprom (GAZP.MM) said Ukraine was siphoning off were small, but the accusation suggested Moscow was in no mood for compromise in a re-run of a 2006 [...]

US energy secretary says difficulties with Russia gas pipeline

November 13th, 2008

BAKU (AFP) – US Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman on Thursday said there were difficulties with a Russian plan for a new gas pipeline to Europe and said Washington wanted to encourage diversity of supply.
Speaking ahead of an energy summit in Azerbaijan that will promote alternative energy supply routes from the Caspian region to Europe, Bodman [...]

EU energy chief to Turkey, Azerbaijan for talks

November 4th, 2008

By ROBERT WIELAARD
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) — The EU’s top energy official will travel to Turkey and Azerbaijan Wednesday to show Europe’s commitment to a pipeline that would transport natural gas from the Caucasus westward in 2013, keeping it out of Russia’s grasp.
EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs will make a push for the Nabucco pipeline, [...]

Eastern Europe looks to nuclear revival to meet its power needs

October 30th, 2008

By Judy Dempsey
Published: October 29, 2008
BERLIN: From the Baltic to Bulgaria, governments in Eastern Europe are increasingly looking toward a revival of nuclear power generation to meet growing energy demand.
The renewed interest in nuclear energy in a region that has been under intense pressure from the European Union to close unsafe older-generation plants coincides with [...]

In Eastern Europe, a Nuclear Answer to Energy Dependence ENERGY

October 29th, 2008

From the Baltic to Bulgaria, governments in Eastern Europe are increasingly looking toward a revival of nuclear power generation to meet growing energy demand.
The renewed interest in nuclear energy in a region that has been under intense pressure from the European Union to close unsafe older- generation plants coincides with a lively debate in [...]