The Slovak gas transmission system operator plans adjustments that will make its network technologically ready for blending up to 5 percent of hydrogen into the transported natural gas.
The new energy poverty concept should formulate conditions and rules that will enable to precisely define an energy poor household, a system of social assistance and financial support for these households.
The new management of the state-controlled company Vodohospodarska Vystavba has cancelled the international tender for the general overhaul of the Gabcikovo hydro-electric power plant due to many shortcomings and flaws.
A spokesman for EPH Daniel Castvaj informed the vEnergetike.sk portal that the 1.47-billion-euro package would be sufficient to cover the completion of the Mochovce project. It also includes a 267-million-euro reserve in case the budget is raised again.
Sberbank, which lent money to Slovenske Elektrarne to complete the Mochovce NPP, started requiring not only individual parts of the company as a guarantee, but also the company’s shares, Economy Minister Sulik says.
The power utility Slovenske Elektrarne will be able to load nuclear fuel in the third nuclear unit of the Mochovce NPP at the end of April at the earliest, company’s Director General Branislav Strycek says.
According to Karol Galek, creation of the state energy holding company in which companies operating on the free market would merge with the regulated ones would only cover up the real situation.