The Energy Independence Movement, a NGO, has called upon the resigning Cabinet of PM Boyko Borisov and the GERB party to revoke the moratorium on the exploration and extraction of shale gas that it adopted in 2012 after street protests.
The Nabucco Gas Pipeline International consortium announced Monday that it had signed a Memorandum of Understanding and Co-operation (MoU) with the Trans Anatolian Pipeline (TANAP).
Bulgarian railway workers are set to support a protest strike of the minors and workers at thermal power plants in the country.
Bulgarian miners are also preparing to stage a protest rally over the threat of having the country's Thermal Power Plants, TPPs, being taken off the energy grid.
The outgoing government of Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria party, GERB, has restricted the production of the cheapest electric power, according to the National Electric Company, NEK.
The recent decision of the Bulgarian Parliament for the conclusive termination of the Belene NPP project is unrelated to the proceedings worth EUR 1 B at the Court of Arbitration in Paris initiated by Russia against the National Electric Company (NEK), ac
The possible reduction of electric power prices in Bulgaria will be below the 8% pledged by Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, just one day before his sudden decision to resign.
Russian state-owned energy company Rosatom is yet to give up on the construction of the Belene nuclear power plant project in Bulgaria.
Bulgaria's outgoing Economy and Energy Minister Delyan Dobrev has vowed that electricity prices will drop from March 1 without citing a concrete percentage.
Czech utility CEZ, which supplies power to over 2 million households and companies in western Bulgaria, claims its house is in order as prosecutors, tax officials and gendarmerie stormed its headquarters in Sofia earlier on Wednesday.
Gendarmerie officers have stormed the premises of power distributor CEZ in Sofia.
Bulgaria's Parliament confirmed Wednesday the country's decision to abandon the Belene nuclear power plant project.
Prosecutors from Sofia, Varna and Plovdiv and tax officials have entered the offices of the three power distributors functioning in Bulgaria, CEZ, EVN, and Energo Pro, to start inspections.
Bulgaria's State Commission for Energy and Water Regulation (DKEVR) will be able to change electricity prices more frequent than once a year, according to legal amendments approved by the parliamentary committee on economic policy, energy and tourism.
The Members of the Bulgarian Parliament passed Tuesday at second reading the Energy Efficiency Act.
Outgoing Economy and Energy Minister Delyan Dobrev has insisted that Bulgaria's Parliament finish work on a set of proposed amendments to the Energy Act in its remaining few weeks in office.
Sofia heating utility Toplofikatsia Sofia will appeal the penalty imposed by Bulgaria's Commission for Protection of Competition (KZK) for abuse of dominant position within the statutory deadline of 14 days.
All six members of Bulgaria's State Commission for Energy and Water Regulation (DKEVR) have resigned last week, according to the press center of the watchdog.
Thousands of protesters took to the streets of the struggling Bulgarian town of Blagoevgrad on Sunday, demanding a moratorium on skyrocketing power bills.
The Bulgarian Parliament will hold an emergency sitting Tuesday to decide on the fate of the project to build a second Nuclear Power Plant in the Danube town of Belene.
Valentin Nikolov, CEO of the Kozloduy NPP, has argued that a change in the energy mix could bring about a substantial reduction in electricity prices in Bulgaria.
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