The IEA predicts record sales of electric cars this year. The International Energy Agency (IEA) suggests that sales of electric vehicles in 2022 may reach a record high. The IEA’s Tracking Clean Energy Progress report says that global sales of electri... #ElectricCars #ElectricCarsSales #IEA
The US Congress will severely punish any attempt to circumvent oil sanctions against Russia. The WSJ writes that the US Congress is preparing a bipartisan proposal to strengthen the agreement on a price ceiling for Russian oil. It is noted that Senators Chris Van Hollen and Pat Toomey want to... #RussianOilPriceCeiling #RussianOilSanctions #SecondarySanctions
EU countries have slashed import of Russian crude oil. Russia’s seaborne crude exports to Europe are being diminished, with the bloc’s further sanctions only about two months away. Shipments in recent weeks have been little more than half pre-invasion lev... #EUoilImport #RussianCrudeOil #RussianOilSanctions
Oil prices decreased again against the backdrop of recession expectations. According to the ICE Futures exchange, the price of November futures for Brent crude fell to $85.66 per barrel on the afternoon of September 26, which is $0.49 (0.57%) below the closing price from the... #oilmarket #OilPrices
Ukraine and Romania will strengthen their cooperation in the gas and light oil product markets. Deputy Minister of Energy Mykola Kolisnyk and State Secretary of the Ministry of Energy of Romania George Niculescu have agreed on cooperation in the development of natural gas markets and systemic su... #lightOilProductMarkets #MykolaKolisnyk #UkraineGasMarket #UkraineRomania
The new package of EU sanctions will not set a Russian oil price limit. In the eighth package of European Union sanctions against Russia, there will probably be no limit on the prices of Russian oil, reported Radio Svoboda. Because the G7 is still working out the details ... #anti_Russiansanctions #EUsanctionsforRussia #RussianOil
Energoatom is going to build a nuclear power plant in Chigyrin. State nuclear operator Energoatom is considering the possibility of resuming the construction of the Chigyryn nuclear power plant in the Cherkasy region and is preparing to carry out geodetic work. Th... #Energoatom #NewNuclearPowerPlants #NPPinUkraine
Great Britain will help Ukraine to purchase gas and increase the supply of weapons. Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal and Prime Minister of Great Britain Liz Truss discussed boosting the supply of weapons for Ukraine’s defense and strengthening sanctions against Russian oil and... #BritainAidforUkraine #DenysShmyhal #LizTruss
Ukraine has a number of potential sources of income for its recovery after the war. Ukraine’s integration into the EU’s energy transition can compensate for losses from the economic downturn in the fossil fuel market due to the war and provide additional financial revenu... #EnergyTransition #Ernst&Young #UkraineSourcesOfIncome
Hungary hinders the expansion of Ukrainian electricity exports to Europe. According to Olena Zerkal, adviser to the Minister of Energy, despite the urgent electricity shortage in the European market, Hungarians officials have done everything in their power to suspend the fu... #ElectricityExporttoEU #Hungary #OlenaZerkal
Ukraine will increase nighttime electricity exports to the EU. On September 20, the European network of operators of the electricity transmission system, ENTSO-E, increased the available capacity to export electricity from Ukraine to Europe by 50 MW at night. As ... #ElectricityExporttoEU #ENTSO-E #Ukrainianelectricityexports #Ukrenergo
The US, Norway, and Kazakhstan will replace Russia on the EU oil market after the embargo. After the introduction of the embargo, the EU will need to replace an additional 1.4 million barrels of Russian oil. At the same time, about 300,000 barrels per day can potentially come from the US, a... #EUOilMarket #OilEmbargo #RussianOil
Russia has shelled another nuclear power plant in the Mykolaiv region. Russian forces carried out a missile attack on the site of the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant in the southern Mykolaiv region. According to the Nuclear Operator, Energoatom, all three power units ... #Energoatom #MykolaivNPP #NuclearThreat
Ukraine has calculated the losses from the termination of gas transit from the Russian Federation. If the transit of Russian gas through Ukraine stops in January 2023, and there is no payment for reserved capacities, the state budget in 2023 would not receive UAH 11.15B, according to the appendices... #RussianGasTransit #UkraineGTS
A second biomethane plant in Ukraine will be connected to the network in 2023. In the first half of 2023, the Regional Gas Company will connect a second biomethane plant with a capacity of 18 million cubic meters of biomethane per year to gas distribution networks in the Vinnyts... #BiogasCompany #BiomethanePlant #OlehDjurik
Germany is preparing to stop the Russian Federation’s oil supply. Russia can stop supplying oil to two German plants through the Druzhba pipeline, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in an interview with the Deutschlandfunk. He recalled that the country has already f... #EnergyCrisis #OlafScholz #RussianOilExport
Ukraine set a record for electricity export to the EU. The export of electricity from Ukraine to EU countries in the first two weeks of September set a trade record of $131M. This is the second highest indicator after the export of agricultural products, ... #ElectricityExporttoEU #Ukrainianelectricity #Ukrenergo
The Russian forces have attacked the Donetsk region power plant. A thermal power plant in the eastern Donetsk region came under heavy Russian shelling Saturday morning, reported the Donetsk administration. The shelling took place at the Sloviansk TPP plant, reporte... #EnergyInfrastructure #SlovianskTPP
The IAEA has demanded that Russia withdraw its troops from the Zaporizhzhia NPP. On Thursday, the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which consists of representatives from 35 UN member states, adopted a resolution demanding that Russia end its occupation... #IAEA #zaporizhzhiaNPP
Gas prices in Europe have increased by 12%. During trading on September 15 the price of gas in Europe rose by 12% – to almost €245 per 1 MWh, according to data from the ICE exchange. The contract price for gas supply with execution in Oct... #EUgasPrices #UrsulavonderLeyen
Ukraine has decreased coal imports by three times and will rely on domestic production. For the first eight months of 2022, Ukraine has reduced the import of hard coal and anthracite by three times compared to the same period in 2021, to 4.37 million tons. According to the Ministry of E... #CoalImport #ukrainiancoal
The EU has pivoted to importing diesel fuel from the Middle East and Asia. From September 1 to 11, Europe imported 1.65 million barrels of diesel daily. This is the highest amount since August 2019, writes Reuters. Imports from the Russian Federation accounted for 44% of the... #dieselfuel #DieselImport
Due to war, 90% of the wind energy capacities in Ukraine have been taken out of operation. According to research from REN21, Russia has also destroyed 30% of the solar energy generation capacity in Ukraine. Before the war, Ukraine had achieved the largest increase in solar and wind energy p... #GreenENergy #REN21 #RenewableEnergyUkraine
Ukrenergo is ready to go through the winter without the Zaporizhzhia NPP and is preparing reserves in case of further infrastructure strikes. State energy company Ukrenergo worked on different scenarios of the heating season, including the absence of power generation from the Zaporizhzhya NPP. In all these cases, consumers will be provided ... #HeatingSeason #Ukrenergo #zaporizhzhiaNPP
The US will give Ukraine two billion cubic meters of gas. By the beginning of October, gas reserves in Ukraine’s storage facilities will reach 15.5 billion cubic meters. In addition, there are agreements with the US to receive two billion cubic meters ... #GasReservesUkraine #HeatingSeason #USgas
Ukraine will ask ENTSO-E to increase electricity exports to Europe. As the chairman of the company’s board, Volodymyr Kudrytsky specified that currently more than 600 MW of capacity is being exported to Moldova, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia. The company wants t... #ENTSO-E #UkraineElectricityExport
The EU might refuse to introduce a price ceiling for Russian gas. It is likely that the European Union will not introduce a price ceiling for Russian or any other imported gas, writes The Guardian. It is noted that the publication has reviewed the draft resolution o... #priceceilingforgas #RussianGas #UrsulavonderLeyen
Investors have given support to a draft law that allows for the completion of green power plant construction in two years. Renewable energy investors in Ukraine support the draft law developed by the Ministry of Energy, which would provide two years to complete unfinished green energy projects, according to the European-... #EUEA #GreenENergy #GreenEnergyConstruction
Israel will help the EU to fight the gas crisis. According to Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid, the country will be able to provide the EU with about 10% of the gas that Europe received from Russia in 2021, VOA writes. Israel will join the EU’... #EUgasCrisis #liquefiedgas #YairLapid
Ukraine will export biomethane to the EU. The development of Ukraine’s biomethane market will not only reduce dependence on the import of fossil energy resources but also open the export of biomethane to the EU, the State Energy Efficiency Ag... #Biomethane #exportbiomethane
Naftogaz’s CEO warns of complete shutdown of Russian gas transit through Ukraine. There’s a high-risk Russia will completely stop natural gas shipments to the European Union through Ukraine, said the CEO of state energy company Naftogaz-Ukraine, Yuriy Vitrenko. “I would estimate t... #Naftogaz #RussianGasTransit #YuriyVitrenko
Ukraine plans to export coal to Poland and increase the supply of electricity. As part of preparations for the challenging heating season for both Ukraine and the EU, Ukraine is ready to consider opening quotas for importing coal to Poland, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said. Acc... #coalexport #electricityExport #ukrainiancoal
Naftogaz will launch its gas station network in September. In September, Naftogaz of Ukraine will launch 30 gas stations in the capital and Kyiv region under the U.GO brand. The company said that the gas stations will utilize the seized Glusco network, which ... #gasstationnetwork #Naftogaz #U.GO
President Zelenskyy predicts Ukraine’s future as the EU’s green energy hub. Ukraine can become a green energy hub for Europe, replacing Russia’s dirty energy resources. As President Volodymyr Zelenskyy emphasized, Ukraine possesses huge natural potential for establishin... #GreenEnergyUkraine #ukrainiannaturalresources #Zelenskyy
The European Commission proposes to cap the price of Russian gas at €50 per MWh. This is five times less than the current spot price, reported Politico. The publication notes that this step may be risky because the EU must be ready to refuse Russian gas immediately. After all, the... #EuropeanCommission #EuropeGasPrices #RussianGas
A new well with a potential for 120,000 cubic meters of gas per day was launched in Ukraine. Naftogaz-Ukraine launched a new exploratory well in the Kharkiv Region with the possibility of producing at least 120,000 cubic meters of gas per day. As the company reported, specialists discovered a... #GasProductionUkraine #GasWell #Naftogaz
The EU has announced a reduction of Russian gas supplies from 40% to 9%. The EU is working on the problem of consumer protection and reducing dependence on Russian gas. At the beginning of the war against Ukraine, the Russian share in external supplies to the EU was 40%, a... #GasImport #RussianGas #RussianGassupplies
Electricity in Eastern Europe costs 6 times more than in Ukraine. The exchange price for electricity in the Eastern European countries on September 6 was €480 per MWh. (UAH 17.50/kWh). This is six times higher than the price in Ukraine, the Market Operator reported.... #Electricityprices #EUenergyPrices
The IAEA mission saw military vehicles and equipment inside the Zaporizhzhia NPP. According to Director General Rafael Grossi, the International Atomic Energy Agency saw Russian military equipment and personnel inside the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant while visiting the facilit... #IAEA #RafaelMarianoGrossi #zaporizhzhiaNPP
Europeans support Ukraine and want to reduce dependence on Russian gas. As of June-July 2022, most Europeans favored continued support for Ukraine and reducing reliance on Russian energy sources, according to the Eurobarometer public survey. The survey shows that 92% supp... #dependenceongas #Eurobarometer #SupportforUkraine
The EU’s gas price increased by 30% in one day. Fueled by the complete shutdown of gas supplies through Nord Stream-1, gas exchange prices in Europe at the opening of trading on Monday exceeded $2,800 per thousand cubic meters, showing an increase... #EUgasPrices #Gazprom #NordStream
The EU council is preparing an urgent package of measures to reduce energy prices. On September 9, the energy ministers of the European Union countries will agree joint efforts towoard minimizing the record-high prices for gas and electricity. According to Politico, the Czech govern... #EUCouncil #EUenergyPrices
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been cut off from the Ukrainian grid. The last remaining power line connecting the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to the Ukrainian grid was disconnected Monday after a fire caused by Russian shelling. As a result, the unit is only prov... #Energoatom #GermanGalushchenko #zaporizhzhiaNPP
The G7 has agreed on a mechanism to limit Russian oil prices. On September 2, the finance ministers of the Big Seven countries (Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Canada, France, Japan, and the US) confirmed their intention to limit the price of Russian oil. The Min... #G7 #OilEmbargo #RussianOil
The Zaporizhzhia NPP was again disconnected, and the reactor was stopped. The IAEA reported that the Zaporizhzhia NPP has once again lost connection with the last main external power transmission line, but the facility continues to supply electricity to the network via a ba... #IAEA #zaporizhzhiaNPP
Ukraine will increase electricity exports to Romania and Slovakia. The European grid operators’ network, ENTSO-E, agreed to allow Ukraine to increase electricity exports to the EU by 20% during daytime hours, reported state electricity company Ukrenergo. Ukraine wil... #ElectricityExports #ENTSO-E #Ukrenergo
Due to shelling at the Zaporizhzhia NPP, the 5th power unit was shut down. On the morning of September 1, as a result of more mortar fire by Russian troops at the Zaporizhzhya NPP, the emergency protection tripped, and the 5th power unit, which had been operating, was shut d... #IAEA #RafaelMarianoGrossi #zaporizhzhiaNPP
Zelenskyy has called on the world to introduce sanctions against Russia’s nuclear industry. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, at the Forum 2000 conference in Prague, called for sanctions against Russia’s nuclear power industry for occupying the Zaporizhia NPP, the Office of the... #Forum2000 #Russiannuclearpower #Zelenskyy
The European Commission plans to limit electricity prices and reduce demand. The European Commission is considering options for limiting prices and reducing demand for electricity as part of its proposals to combat rising energy prices, Reuters writes. According to Mechtild Ve... #electricitydemand #Electricityprices
The G7 plans to present a plan to cap Russian oil prices. On September 2, the finance ministers of the G7 countries will reach an agreement and present a plan for setting maximum prices for Russian oil at a virtual meeting, the WSJ writes. According to the p... #anti_Russiansanctions #OilEmbargo #RussianOil
