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Hungary Adding New VVER-1200 Nuclear Reactors in First for EU

August 26, 2022 admin EU, Hungary, news, Nuclear, paks, paks ii, rosatom, Russia, vver-1200

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 14:18:43 +0000

Hungary’s nuclear energy agency has issued a license for construction of two reactors for Paks II, a power generation project first launched in early 2014 as part of an inter-governmental agreement between Hungary and Russia. Officials said Paks II would be the first nuclear plant in the European Union to use Rosatom’s Generation III+ VVER-1200 […]

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Germany Mulls Postponing Nuclear Exit

August 17, 2022 admin Business, coal exit, Fuel, full coverage, gas power, gas supply, GERMANY, International, Legislative, news, nord stream 1, Nuclear, nuclear phaseout, Russia, Ukraine

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2022 22:24:32 +0000

Germany’s government is weighing how the closure of the country’s last three nuclear power plants in December 2022 will affect its grid this upcoming winter as the country scrambles to secure sufficient energy supplies amid a decline in Russian gas deliveries. A formal decision on whether or not to keep Isar 2, Emsland, and Neckarwestheim […]

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How Europe Can Cut ⅓ Of Its Oil Demand By 2030

August 10, 2022 admin EU, eu oil, Europe, europe oil, Fossil Fuels, Oil, policy & politics, policy research, research, Russia, russia oil, Ukraine

Credit to Author: Transport & Environment (T&E)| Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 05:00:34 +0000

At the time of Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, it typically supplied one out of every four barrels of crude oil that the European Union imported. These imports contributed significantly to funding Putin’s military aggression against Ukraine. To cut this funding stream, the European Commission has agreed on a ban on imports before the end […]

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Russia’s Natural Gas Pipeline Exports To Europe Down To Almost 40-Year Lows

August 9, 2022 admin Belarus, eu natural gas, Europe, europe natural gas, Fossil Fuels, gazprom, GERMANY, market research, natural gas, Poland, policy & politics, research, Russia, russia natural gas, slovakia, uk, uk natural gas, Ukraine

Credit to Author: U.S. Energy Information Administration| Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 02:16:57 +0000

Russia’s natural gas exports by pipeline to the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK) declined by almost 40% during the first seven months of 2022 compared with the same period in 2021 and by almost 50% compared with the previous five-year (2017–21) average, according to data from Refinitiv Eikon. In mid-July 2022, exports […]

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IAEA: Shelling at Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Plant Raises ‘Real Risk’ of Nuclear Disaster

August 6, 2022 admin International, news, Nuclear, Russia, Security, Ukraine, warfare, zaporizhzhya

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2022 20:14:36 +0000

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is growing increasingly alarmed by military action at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant, warning that artillery shelling at the plant site on Aug. 5 underlines a “very real risk of a nuclear disaster.” IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi in a statement on Aug. 6 said new information about the […]

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Rosatom Picks New EPC Lead for Turkey’s First Nuclear Power Plant

August 1, 2022 admin akkuyu, contract, epc, ic ictas, Nuclear, rosatom, Russia, tsm enerji, Turkey, vver-1200

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2022 16:52:40 +0000

A new contractor has been named to finish construction of Turkey’s first nuclear power plant. Russia’s state-owned energy giant Rosatom on July 30 said it had chosen TSM Enerji, a company owned by three Russian groups and incorporated in Turkey, as the project’s new engineering, procurement, and construction lead. The Turkish government has said it […]

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Europe May Need Temporary Coal, Oil Power Increase to Ready for ’Hard’ Winter, IEA Warns

July 18, 2022 admin Coal, energy crisis, Europe, Fuel, Gas, gazprom, iea, International, Nuclear, Oil, Russia, Technology, trends, Ukraine

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 14:50:35 +0000

European leaders should minimize gas use in the power sector and temporarily ramp up coal- and oil-fired generation while accelerating low-carbon sources to guard against energy market turmoil that has grown “especially perilous,” the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on July 18. “I’m particularly concerned about the months ahead,” wrote IEA Executive […]

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France Set to Take Over Major Power Producer Amid Energy Crisis

July 6, 2022 admin Borne, Business, EDF, France, Gas, International, Macron, Management, news, Nuclear, Oil, re-nationalize, Russia, Ukraine

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2022 21:14:31 +0000

The French government is prepared to take full control of EDF, one of the world’s largest producers of electricity, as the energy group struggles with increasing debt due to problems with its current and future nuclear power fleet. Élisabeth Borne, who took over as France’s prime minister in May, in her first state-of-the-nation speech to […]

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RWE to Take Over Vattenfall’s 1.4-GW ‘Hydrogen-Ready’ Dutch Gas-Fired Plant

June 30, 2022 admin ammonia, Business, climate change, Coal, Environmental, full coverage, Gas, gas power plant, hydrogen, International, Japan, jera, magnum, mitsubishi power, netherlands, news, offshore wind, Renewables, Russia, rwe, Technology, vattenfall, Wind

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2022 04:10:00 +0000

German energy giant RWE will in September acquire Vattenfall’s 1.4-GW Magnum combined cycle gas-fired power station, a project in the Netherlands where work is underway to explore converting one of the three

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European Gas “Crisis” Has Global Ripple Effects

June 25, 2022 admin climate change, Europe, european gas market, Fossil Fuels, gas prices, GERMANY, natural gas, natural gas prices, policy & politics, Russia

Credit to Author: Nexus Media| Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2022 03:50:41 +0000

Germany activated the “alarm stage,” phase two of three of the country’s emergency methane-based gas plans, on Thursday after Russia’s Gazprom throttled deliveries by 60%. Phase three would allow the government to implement energy rationing. German economic minister Robert Habeck told reporters the cutbacks were a direct political attack in retaliation for Germany’s sanctions against […]