Posts Tagged ‘Slovakia’

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 [...]

Czech CEZ, Slovak Javys Form JV To Build Slovak Nuclear Plant

May 31st, 2009

PRAGUE (Dow Jones)–Czech power utility CEZ AS (BAACEZ.PR) and Slovak state-owned Nuclear and Decommissioning Company, or Javys, Friday signed a contract to form a joint venture to build a new nuclear power plant in Slovakia.
The new plant is expected to have a generating capacity of up to 1,600 megawatts and will be located 60 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

German Stocks Decline on Economic Concern; Siemens, Henkel Drop

September 10th, 2008

By Henrietta Rumberger
Sept. 10 (Bloomberg) — German stocks fell for a second day after the European Commission forecast a recession in the country and cut its 2008 growth estimate for the euro area.
Siemens AG, Europe’s largest engineering company, and Henkel AG dropped to the lowest in at least a month, leading declines among companies [...]