Romania, Hungary sign deal to lay world’s longest electricity cable
Hungary and Romania were among the four signatories of an agreement to construct a 1,100km (685 mile) power line under the...
Energy
Eight CEE countries push for ‘significantly lower’ EU gas price cap
A total of eight Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries have co-signed a paper with four other EU member states that...
PMs discuss new Slovenia-Hungary gas link
Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban have discussed building a pipeline to transit Algerian gas when...
Orlen moves into Hungary, MOL into Poland, in CEE gas market reshuffle
Orlen Unipetrol, owned by Poland's leading energy company PKN Orlen, will take over 143 petrol stations in Hungary and 39 in Slovakia,...
Poland to build two nuclear reactors – Kaczynski announces, with third also possible
"Now we have decided to atomise Polish energy: two nuclear power plants will be built, one in cooperation with the USA...
Gov’t interventions see Poland, Slovenia, Hungary buck H1 electricity bills trend
Household electricity prices rose year-on-year in the first half of 2022, from EUR 22 per to EUR 25.30 per 100 kWh...
Hungary, Georgia discuss ‘major new energy cooperation’
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili signed a strategic partnership agreement and discussed responses to the...
Latvia, Estonia choose location for giant wind farm
Estonia's Sõrve peninsula area looks set to be the location for the major Estonian-Latvian hybrid offshore wind farm project ‘Elwind’, according...
Romania rolls out strategy for solar, wind power
The Romanian Energy Ministry has launched a renewable energy tender call worth EUR 457.7mn for projects totalling 950MW capacity, which will...
Qatar to open embassy in Czech capital
Czechia and Qatar signed bilateral agreements on Wednesday, as the Gulf state announced that it will open its first embassy in...