The Energy Ministry of Russia (Minenergo) has developed the procedures for financial support of power generation based on using renewable energy sources. According to the program envisaged by the ministry the renewable energy facilities of small capacity may sell electrical energy to the grid companies at the retail market and larger players of the energy […]

Belarus has asked the Russian partners to increase the oil delivery volumes to Minsk by 8.5% in 2012 – from today’s 12.2 million tons to 23 million. This was declared by the Deputy Minister of Energy of Russia Yuriy Sentyurin. Mr Sentyurin pointed out that the Russian Minenergo leaves open the possibility of increasing the […]

The coal production in Russia in the period from January to October 2011 compared to the same period of 2010 rose by 3.2% — to 270 million tons. This is stated in the published materials of the Federal State Statistics Service. Among others things they mention that the coal production in October rose by 10.5%. […]

The prime-minister of Russia Vladimir Putin signed a resolution which will regulate the relationship between the retail companies and the electricity consumers. In particular it presupposes the abolition of fines for the insufficient use of electricity by consumers. Earlier the prime-minister ordered the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, the Mininergo of Russia and the […]

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 […]

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% […]

Minenergo (the Energy Ministry of the Russian Federation) counts on resuming the Russian energy companies operation in Libya and in reviving the cooperation in the sphere of the energy industry between the two countries, the head of the International cooperation department of Minenergo Alexander Sukhov said at the press-conference. ‘Minenergo is hoping of resuming such […]

Improving the situation in the domestic energy industry and its modernization within he next 10 years will cost the Russian budget 11.1 trillion rubles according to the data of Minenergo (the RF Ministry of Energy). The sources of financing the program are first of all provision of credit at ‘preferential interest rates (under 8%) in […]