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Eastern Europe Energy Update – 22nd August, 2018

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Armenia

Energy policy, economic and business news Armenian and Iranian officials discuss energy issues 17 Aug Oil & Gas Iran Wants to Supply Electricity to Russia 20 Aug

Azerbaijan

Renewable Energy Wind power generation greatly increases in Azerbaijan 16 Aug Energy policy, economic and business news Azerbaijan’s drilling company eyes to expand activity in Bangladesh 20 Aug Oil & Gas Germany interested in developing Southern Gas Corridor 22 Aug Azerbaijani oil prices change 21 Aug Imported gasoline prices changed in Azerbaijan 20 Aug Production of Gasoline in Azerbaijan in January-July Decreased by 4% 20 Aug Consumption of Gasoline in Domestic Market of Azerbaijan Increased in H1, 2018 20 Aug Iran Wants to Supply Electricity to Russia 20 Aug SOCAR's second liquefied gas station opens in Baku 18 Aug Azerbaijan Increases Oil Production by 0.3%, Gas - by 2% 17 Aug Azerbaijan Reduced Gas Exports by 2% in H1, 2018 17 Aug

Belarus

Renewable Energy Project for construction of biogas plant at Trostenetsky under public discussion 21 Aug Energy policy, economic and business news Belarus may join Romania's energy infrastructure upgrading projects 22 Aug Oil & Gas Belarus optimistic about oil talks with Russia 15 Aug Nuclear energy Readiness of the remaining 6 launching complexes for power delivery from BelAES is more than 70% 22 Aug

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Eastern Europe Energy Update – 22nd August, 2018

Good progress in building Belarusian nuclear power plant's link to national power grid 21 Aug

Georgia

Electricity Giorgi Kobulia Examined Georgian State Electro System 3 Aug Oil & Gas Gas Tariff to Increase for Enterprises & Companies in Tbilisi 20 Aug Underground Gas Storage to Be Built in Georgia 20 Aug KfW May Provide Georgia with Loan of 150 Million Euros for Construction of Underground Gas Storage Facilities 20 Aug Georgia announces construction of €150m underground gas storage facility 17 Aug

Moldova

Energy policy, economic and business news Law on energy efficiency published in Official Journal of Moldova 17 Aug Electricity Igor Dodon: withdrawal from the CIS Electric Energy Council is the creation of another tension in relations with Russia 16 Aug

Russian Federation

Energy policy, economic and business news Eugene Grabchak held a meeting on use of digital technologies for remote management of small generation facilities 17 Aug (in Russian) Government of the Russian Federation made a decree "On approval of rules of functioning of the power system operations and on amendments to some acts of the Government of the Russian Federation" 16 Aug (in Russian) Oil & Gas Putin: Europe needs Nord Stream 2 as its gas demands rising 22 Aug Germany interested in developing Southern Gas Corridor 22 Aug Iran Wants to Supply Electricity to Russia 20 Aug Gazprom Increased Gas Production by 8.1%, Exports - by 5.7% Jan. 1 - Aug. 15 17 Aug Alexey Teksler in an interview foer the program "Energy" on the RBC channel spoke about role of the project "ЯМАЛ СПГ" for the gas industry 16 Aug (in Russian)

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Eastern Europe Energy Update – 22nd August, 2018

Ukraine

Energy efficiency DTEK Kyiv Electric Networks will install 25 thousand "smart" energy meters 20 Aug (in Ukrainian) Ukraine and UAE to implement joint investment projects in the field of energy efficiency 18 Aug SAEE and GIZ are shaping a web platform for customers and service providers in the field of energy efficiency 16 Aug Renewable Energy Solar power plant installed on the roof of the company under the "green" tariff in Ivano-Frankivsk 21 Aug (in Russian) Grabovets Rural Unified Territorial Community is looking for investors to build a solar power plant 17 Aug (in Ukrainian) EBRD may allocate EUR150mln to Norwegian NBT for the construction of a wind farm in Ukraine 16 Aug (in Russian) Modus Group to embark on 35-MW solar project in Ukraine 14 Aug Energy policy, economic and business news The National Commission for State Regulation of Energy and Public Utilities considers it inappropriate to grant an increase to the "green" tariff for the introduction of the system of electricity accumulation 22 Aug (in Ukrainian) The National Commission for State Regulation of Energy and Public Utilities can extend the green tariff for households until 2040 22 Aug (in Russian) Ukraine and the United Arab Emirates are beginning to cooperate in implementing joint investment green projects 18 Aug (in Ukrainian) Volodymyr Kistion: The situation in energy sector is stable and predictable 15 Aug Ukrzaliznytsia transported 12.3 mln tonnes of steam coal to TPPs in January - July 2018 15 Aug Electricity Ukrenergo estimates electric power market operators' investment in ENTSO-E integration at EUR 350 mln 20 Aug Ukrenergo initiates establishing guarantee of buying highly maneuverable capacities for balancing power system 20 Aug NCER to cancel Rotterdam+ formula from July 2019 due to transfer to new electricity market 17 Aug Oil & Gas Nord Stream 2 to deprive Ukraine of gas transit despite guarantees from Russia – Klimkin 22 Aug Tariffs for oil transportation services to be gradually raised from 2019 – Ukrtransnafta 20 Aug Ukraine should modernize its GTS – Steffen Seibert 20 Aug Gas supply in Avdiivka of Donetsk region finally resumed 20 Aug Gazprom increases request for gas transit through Ukraine after low values on Aug 7-17 20 Aug Naftogaz will raise gas price for industrial consumers by 4.6% in Sept 17 Aug The Eastern Europe Energy Update is a weekly service providing actual energy information from seven Eastern European countries. The authors are not responsible for any contents linked or referred to from this document. You can subscribe to this service at https://www.energy-strategies.nl/observatory/eastern-europe-energy-update/ For more information please contact the editor: Viktoria Diachkova [email protected]

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