Bulgaria Confirms Plans to Build NPP Unit with US Technology
Bulgaria is planning to build a new unit at the country's only NPP in the Danube town of Kozloduy using US technology, Economy and Energy Minister Dragomir Stoynev confirmed.
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Bulgaria is planning to build a new unit at the country's only NPP in the Danube town of Kozloduy using US technology, Economy and Energy Minister Dragomir Stoynev confirmed.
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Bulgaria's Ministry of Economy and Energy and the donors of the Kozloduy International Decommissioning Support Fund signed five new grant agreements worth over EUR 85 M in London.
The European Parliament will put to the vote on Tuesday a proposal for Bulgaria to receive a total of EUR 260 M from the Kozloduy International Decommissioning Support Fund by 2020.
Heating and hot water prices in Sofia will remain unchanged over the next few years, according to Stoyan Tsvetanov, CEO of heating utility Toplofikatsiya Sofia.
Bulgaria has experienced no gas supply disruptions as a result of the reported refusal of Ukraine's national oil and gas company Naftogaz to buy gas from Gazprom.
The Bulgarian Energy Holding (BEH) has opened a procedure for the preparation of a roadmap for building new nuclear capacity at the Kozloduy nuclear power plant.
Bulgaria will make public the contracts signed with Gazprom on the South Stream natural gas pipeline project once they are finalized, stated Bulgarian Energy Minister Dragomir Stoynev.
The deal achieved between Bulgaria and Russia regarding the constrution of the South Stream natural gas pipeline is especially profitable for Bulgaria, stated Bulgarian Energy Minister Dragomir Stoynev.
Bulgaria's benefits from the Russian-sponsored South Stream gas pipeline project amounts to approximately BGN 1.5 B in dividends only, says the Minister of Economy and Energy Dragomir Stoynev.
The construction of the "most problematic stretch" of the South Stream gas pipeline, the one in Bulgaria, has been officially launched, according to Russian daily Kommersant.
Bulgaria's state energy holding company BEH has raised EUR 500 M, the company announced as the early signing for its bond issue on international market was wrapped up.
A groundbreaking ceremony for the Russian-sponsored gas pipeline project South Stream was held Thursday at site of the Bulgarian compressor station "Rasovo.
Bulgaria expects revenues of EUR 2.3 B from the South Stream gas pipeline in the period 2013-2043, according to Economy and Energy Minister Dragomir Stoynev.
As expected, the Russian-sponsored South Stream gas pipeline project has topped the agenda of talks between the CEO of Russian energy giant Gazprom, Alexei Miller, and Bulgaria's Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski.
The CEO of Russian natural gas giant Gazprom, Alexei Miller, is arriving in Bulgarian capital Sofia on Thursday to confer with the country's prime minister.
Bulgaria is to receive a total of EUR 260 M from the Kozloduy International Decommissioning Support Fund by 2020, according to MEP Ingeborg Gr?ssle.
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