This year the authorities of the Odessa region intends to launch more than 30 renewable energy projects on-site. The vice-chairman of the Odessa Regional Administration Alexander Malinin said that the total capacity of the solar energy projects both planned and being executed at the moment at the territory of the Odessa region already exceeds 240 […]

In the course of geological prospecting at the Sakhalin shelf Gazprom discovered a new gas field on the Mynginskaya structure within the boundaries of the Kirinskoe prospecting site. This is already the second gas field discovered by Gazprom at the Kirinskoe prospecting site. Earlier in September 2010 Gazprom already discovered here a large Yuzhno-Kirinnskoe gas […]

According to the data of the grid enterprise Ekering all the windmills generated a total amount of 140 MWt of electricity. The electricity generated by the windmills made up o0ver 15 percent of all the electrical energy consumed in Estonia. The previous record of electrical energy generation was set on September 14 2011 – on […]

MES Center has embarked on the replacement of an air circuit breaker 110 kV at the substation 500 kV Pakhra in the Moscow region. The works are being carried out within the framework of OAO UES FGC repair campaign for 2011. Within the framework of the repair works the substation 5000 kV Pakhra had all […]

The two companies closed the deal approved of by the Russian authorities in summer. NOVATEK Company has closed the deal on selling 20% of OAO Yamal LNG shares to the French company Total via its wholly-owned subsidiary OOO Novatek Severo-Zapad. The Memorandum of Cooperation in accordance with which Total is a strategic partner of NOVATEK […]

The production of electrical energy in the Russian Federation in the period from January to September 2011 has risen by 1.3% against the same period in 2010 – to 760.7 billion kWh, this is stated in the materials of Minenergo (the Energy Ministry of Russia). In September this year this factor has risen by 0.4% […]

Two China-manufactured hybrid buses priced at thirteen million eighty thousand rubles (four hundred forty thousand American dollars) have been given as a gift by the authorities of Beijing to the government of the Russian capital city as well as to the residents and guests of Moscow. Another Foton Euro V hybrid went to the Palmyra […]

In September the power generating units of Balakovskaya nuclear power plant produced 2.987 billion kWh of electrical energy. The planned monthly objective has been fulfilled 102.7 %. The capacity factor comprised 03.7%. At present the four generating units of the Balakovskaya nuclear power plant are in operation. There are no complaints on the safety operation […]

The arbitration court of the Krasnodar Territory filed the claim in bankruptcy of OAO Kubanenergo (a part of OAO Holding IDGC) from OOO Veha-Region. The date of considering feasibility of the accusation of bankruptcy has not been defined yet. On September 12 the 15th Arbitration Court of Appeal confirmed the legality of the first judgment […]

The authorities of the Moscow region approved of the draft regulations according to which the gas for the needs of the population of the region will be delivered by three suppliers instead of one, which will enable mitigating risks associated with the gas supply irregularities. Earlier the Moscow region has only one company which supplied […]