The government expands the law on investment in energy efficiency and hot water supply. According to Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, the draft law proposes to give preferences to these projects, increasing the threshold from €12M to €20M. This will allow not only large, but also medium ent... #DenysShmyhal #Energyefficiency #EnergyInvestments
The EU has already replaced two-thirds of its imported gas from the Russian Federation. The EU is ridding itself of its dependence on Russian gas faster than expected. In just eight months, European countries have found replacement options for two-thirds of the gas previously imported fr... #liquefiedgas #RussianGas #UrsulavonderLeyen
State gas producer Ukrgazvydobuvannya set a record for drilling new wells. In September 2022, the drilling volume of new wells of the Ukrgazvydobuvannya’s drilling division, Ukrburgaz, reached a record high of 30,222 m. In September, drillers also set a record for daily pene... #DrillingnewwellsinUkraine #HydroCarbonProduction #Ukrgazvydobuvannya
Highlights of the 13th European-Ukrainian Energy Day in Vienna. On October 14, the 13th Energy Day of the European-Ukrainian Energy Agency (EUEA) was held in Vienna with the participation of leading experts from the EIB, the EBRD, the Secretariat of the Energy Com... #EuropeanUkrainianEnergyDay #MechthildWörsdörfer #OleksiyMagda #YaroslavDemchenkov
The mass media reported on German investigators’ confidence that the Russians blew up the Nord Stream pipelines. German investigators established that the explosions at the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines resulted from sabotage. The WSJ reported that officials familiar with the investigation said it ... #NordStream #NordStream2sabotage #RussianGas
The Russian Federation is hunting energy facilities in Ukraine particularly. Russia is hunting for operational and technological management objects of Ukraine’s energy system, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Yevgeny Yenin said. According to the minister, it is not only abo... #MissileAttackOnUkraine #UkraineENergySystem #YevgenyYenin
EU has reduced its Russian gas consumption by 500%. According to September’s results, Russian gas consumption decreased from more than 40% to 8% of total consumption and continues to fall, said Oleksandr Kharchenko, director of the Energy Researc... #OleksandrKharchenko #russiagasproduction #RussianGas #RussianOilPriceCeiling
Ukraine is rapidly increasing gas imports from the EU. Since October 15, Ukraine has tripled its import of natural gas from Europe against the backdrop of lower gas prices. According to operational data from the Operator of the GTS of Ukraine, on October ... #gasprices #RussianGasTransit #UkraineGasImports
Experts have discussed Ukraine and the EU’s energy future in Vienna. On October 14, Vienna hosted the 13th European-Ukrainian Energy Day, an annual conference organized by the European-Ukrainian Energy Agency (EUEA). The theme of this year’s event was New energy... #EnergyCrisis #EUEDconference #MechtildVersderfer
The EU and Ukraine’s joint energy security depends on the diversification of energy sources. Ukraine and the EU are shaping a new energy reality. They are laying the foundations of a new energy architecture, which involves using many sources of generation to ensure the energy balance, Deputy ... #EnergySecurity #EUEDconference #YaroslavDemchenkov
Ukraine will switch to smart electrical networks by 2035. The Cabinet of Ministers approved the concept of implementing smart networks in Ukraine by 2035 and approved an action plan for its implementation. The concept envisages a gradual reduction of electri... #EnergyInfrastructure #SmartElectricalNetworks #UkraineENergySystem
Putin proposes the creation of a gas hub in Turkey as pressure from the West increases on Russian energy supplies. The Russian President suggested a gas hub plan to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Thursday, stating that if there were interest from Turkey, they would consider its feasibility. “If Turkey ... #GasHubInTurkey #Putin #RecepTayyipErdoğan
Russia might attack Ukraine’s GTS to launch Nord Stream 2. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy believes Russia may strike the Ukrainian gas transportation system and demand that Europe launch Nord Stream 2. The president believes Russia will commit a terrorist atta... #nordstream2 #UkraineGTS #Zelenskyy
Poland suspects Russian involvement in the Druzhba oil pipeline leak. Russian interests may be behind the accident at the Druzhba oil pipeline, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said. The prime minister did not make direct accusations but noted that many clues po... #DruzhbaPipelineLeak #MateuszMorawiecki
Zelenskyy calls on the G7 to introduce a price ceiling for Russian oil and gas. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on the Big Seven (G7) countries to respond to Russia’s strikes on Ukraine’s energy sector with new symmetrical sanctions. In particular, the introducti... #energysanctions #priceceilingforgas #RussianOilPriceCeiling #Zelenskyy
Another leak has been detected in a pipeline carrying Russian oil to the EU. A leak has been detected in the Druzhba pipeline, which supplies crude oil from Russia to Germany according to PERN, the pipeline’s operator, in a statement on Wednesday. PERN said the leak was first... #DruzhbaPipeline #DruzhbaPipelineLeak #transitofRussianoil
Ukraine received €550M from the EIB to restore its energy system. The EU and the European Investment Bank will help Ukraine restore its energy infrastructure. On October 12, the EIB transferred an additional €550M to Ukraine. According to Prime Minister Denys Shmyha... #DenysShmyhal #EIBaidforUkraine #UkraineENergySystem
The war in Ukraine renews investors’ interest in nuclear energy. American nuclear power company Westinghouse Electric is being bought by a consortium of private investors in a $7.9B deal. According to the FT, one of the world’s largest clean energy investors,... #nuclearenergy #NuclearIndustry #WestinghouseElectric
The first two biomethane plants will open in Ukraine by the end of the year. According to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, the first two biomethane plants will be operational in Ukraine by the end of 2022. One is in the Chernihiv region, with a capacity of up to three million ... #biomethaneinUkraine #biomethaneproduction
Ukraine and the Czech Republic will engage in hydrocarbon exploration. State company Ukrgazvydobuvannya and the Czech MND Group will work on hydrocarbon exploration in the western regions of Ukraine. The Ukrainian company reported that the companies signed the memorandum... #explorationofhydrocarbons #MNDgroup #Ukrgazvydobuvannya
The Ukrainian government has settled numerous debts on the gas market. The government continues to work on stabilizing function of the gas and electricity markets. The Cabinet of Ministers has approved resolutions providing for the settling of a significant number of gas... #DenysShmyhal #GasMarketinUkraine
On October 10, Russia carried out the largest attack to date on Ukraine’s energy system. According to Minister of Energy Herman Galushchenko, the enemy’s goal is to destroy the entire energy system and make it impossible to reconnect electricity supplies from other sources, complic... #DenysMonastyrskyy #EnergyInfrastructure #HermanGalushchenko #MissileAttackOnUkraine
The second mass missile attack on October 11 hit 33 energy sector facilities. On October 11, the Russian Federation carried out 33 attacks on energy infrastructure facilities in Ukraine, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal reported. The enemy continued to launch dozens of missiles, at... #DenysShmyhal #EnergyInfrastructure #MissileAttackOnUkraine
Ukraine has stopped exporting electricity. The missile attacks hit thermal generation and electrical substations, forcing Ukraine to suspend electricity exports beginning October 11, 2022, to stabilize its energy system, the Ministry of Energy... #EnergyInfrastructure #HermanGalushchenko #Ukrainianelectricityexports
Following the strikes, many Ukrainian cities lost internet. After the attack on October 10, there are significant difficulties with internet provision in six Ukrainian cities and in eight regions with the connection diminished and deteriorated, said Minister o... #InfrastructureLosses #MykhailoFedorov #WarinUkraine
Ukraine introduced a duty on natural gas, oil, and oil products. The government decided to enact customs payments for goods moving through pipelines. As the Ministry of Finance explained, according to the Customs Code, such goods are not subject to customs duty, bu... #DutyOnGas #GasExport
Ukraine agrees to terms on gas supply through the Baltic Pipe. Naftogaz of Ukraine has preliminary agreements in place for its gas supply through the Baltic Pipe gas pipeline from Norway to Poland. However, the company currently does not have the funds to purchas... #BalticPipe #GasforUkraine #GasSupplies #Naftogaz
The Netherlands is going to reopen the largest gas field in Europe. Bloomberg writes that the Groningen field has enough unused capacity to replace most of the fuel Germany previously imported from Russia. Currently, the lot is in the process of being closed, and the ... #gasdeposits #GasProduction #NetherlandsGas
Authorities are urging Ukrainians to conserve energy resources as much as possible this winter. Saving energy resources this winter will be a contribution from every Ukrainian to victory over the enemy, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said. Shmyhal explained that without the Zaporizhzhya NPP, Ukrai... #DenysShmyhal #UkraineENergySystem #zaporizhzhiaNPP
Ukraine has doubled its sales of green electricity. In September, the State Enterprise Guaranteed Buyer sold 356,000 MWh of electricity from renewable sources for UAH 1.1B. This is 2.2 times more than in August, the press service of the state-owned ent... #greenelectricity #GuaranteedBuyerUkraine
OPEC+ will reduce oil production by two million barrels per day. Representatives of the OPEC organization and other oil countries, led by Russia, agreed at a meeting in Vienna to reduce oil production by two million barrels per day. It is expected that the decision... #OilProduction #OPEC #OPECmeeting
The G7 has prepared a three-stage cap on Russian oil prices. According to Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy Ben Harris, the price ceiling will first be introduced on crude oil, then on diesel fuel, and finally on cheaper petroleum products, such as naphth... #G7 #RussianOilEmbargo #RussianOilPriceLimit
Russian forces have mined two units of the Zaporizhzhia NPP and are trying to connect them to the Russian power system. The Russians are trying to connect the Zaporizhzhya NPP to power grids in order to supply electricity to occupied Crimea or to connect the power system to the Russian network. As the ex-head of the St... #NuclearBlackmail #zaporizhzhiaNPP
Ukraine has accumulated almost 14 billion cubic meters of gas for the heating season. Of the total amount, the state company Naftogaz purchased more than 200 million cubic meters of fuel from private gas production companies. The company reported that as of October 3, gas reserves in s... #HeatingSeasonUkraine #Naftogaz #UkrainianGas
Azerbaijan will increase gas exports to Europe by 40%. Azerbaijani gas supplies to Europe will increase by 40% to 11.5 billion cubic meters this year, the country’s president, Ilham Aliyev, said. According to Aliyev, the country will export 22 billi... #AzerbaijaniGas #GasExports #IlhamAliyev
Gazprom reduced gas production by 17% over last three quarters; exports fell by 40%. Russian Gazprom produced 313.3 billion cubic meters of gas in January-September 2022, 17.1% (64.8 billion cubic meters) less than last year. At the same time, exports to foreign countries fell by 40.... #Gazprom #RussianGas
A new Russian-alternative gas pipeline has opened in Europe. The new gas pipeline between Bulgaria and Greece became operational on October 1. The IGB interconnector will change the rules of the game in the European energy market and provide independence from R... #GasTransportation #NewGasPipeline
Moldova has launched a virtual gas reverse to Ukraine. Moldova has introduced a virtual gas reverse, which will contribute to restoring the Trans-Balkan gas route to full operation. As the GTS Operator reported, the Moldovan operator confirms nominations ... #GasImport #NewGasMarket #TransBalkanGasRoute
Ukraine plans to completely abandon the use of natural gas for heating. According to Yury Vitrenka, chairman of the board of Naftogaz of Ukraine, the experience in Zhytomyr shows that in most cases, it is possible to switch to heating using biomass and garbage as fuel sou... #EneogyOfBiomass #Naftogaz #YuriyVitrenko
Ukraine is ready to sell the first batches of biomethane to the EU. The Ukrainian Regional Gas Company, Hals Agro, and the Dutch company STX signed a memorandum of cooperation to sell Ukraine’s first biomethane to Europe, according to an announcement from the RGK. The... #biomethaneproduction #exportbiomethane
The Nord Stream inspection found a fourth leak in the pipeline. Germany’s ambassador to the UK said a fourth leak had been discovered in the Nord Stream pipelines connecting Russia to Germany. Moreover, the leaks provide a “solid indication” these were acts of sab... #MiguelBerger #NordStream #NordStream2sabotage
NATO calls the damage to the Nord Stream pipelines sabotage. NATO believes that the damage to the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea is the result of deliberate, reckless, and irresponsible acts of sabotage. In its statement, the al... #EnergyDiversion #GasPipelineDestruction #NordStream #nordstream2
Russian Gazprom has paid for the entire October transit through Ukraine. According to RBC-Ukraine, the Russian monopolist paid Naftogaz-Ukraine for an entire month of gas transit. At the same time, it is noted that the payment will not prevent Moscow from cutting off physi... #Gazprom #RussianGas #TurkishStream
In 2022, renewable energy producers received UAH 25B. Since the beginning of 2022, the Guaranteed Buyer state enterprise has paid out UAH 24.8B to producers of electricity from renewable sources. According to the company’s data, Guaranteed Buyer pa... #GuaranteedBuyerUkraine #RenewableEnergyUkraine
Zelenskyy has approved excise taxes on fuel. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a Law on the resumption of excise taxes on gasoline, diesel, biofuel, and autogas. In March, the excise tax on fuel was suspended through tax legislation implement... #excisetaxes #ExciseTaxesOnFuel #Zelenskyy
Russia is believed to have damaged the Nord Stream pipelines to sabotage the EU. The Swedish National Seismic Network (SNSN) said Tuesday that it detected two explosions on Monday near the area of the Nord Stream pipelines. The first explosion was recorded at 2:03 a.m. and the sec... #NordStream #RussianGas
Europe is prepared to get through the winter without Russian gas. This winter, Europe will be able to buy almost 40% more liquefied natural gas (LNG) than last year. These supplies will be enough to compensate for the complete shutdown of Russian gas pipelines that ... #EUwithoutRussianGas #LNGforEU
Ukrainian coal will arrive in Poland this week. The first shipments of Ukrainian coal will arrive in Poland within a week. Recently, the Ukrainian government approved the quota of 100,000 tons for Poland. Additionally, the head of the Office of th... #coalexport #UkraineElectricityExport #ukrainiancoal
Poland has launched the Baltic Pipeline to import Norwegian gas. On September 27, Poland officially opened a gas pipeline called the Baltic Pipe with a capacity of 10 billion cubic meters per year. It will become a new channel for Norwegian gas to Europe, reports T... #BalticPipeline #NorwegianGas
The IAEA will increase the scope of its mission at the Zaporizhzhia NPP. On the sidelines of the UN General Assembly an agreement was reached with IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi on increasing their mission parameters at the Zaporizhzhia NPP, Prime Minister Denys Shmy... #IAEA #RafaelMarianoGrossi #zaporizhzhiaNPP
