Bulgaria to double its gas storage volume
The project will be financially supported by the European Commission and by 2025, the country hopes to have a new…
GSP Offshore to produce the floating platform for a Black Sea wind energy pilot project
The BLOW (Black Sea Floating Offshore Wind) project was recently launched in Brussels, involves 15 partners from 9 countries and…
J. Balogh: A warning on global warming: some notes about the European carbon market
To start our discussion, please take a look at this historic curve: Whatever commodity this would be, something strange is…
Robbing Hood or Robin Hood? A note on the economic analysis of energy-industry special taxes in Hungary
“Today forgetting has perhaps grown more puzzling, than remembering (…)” – so Sigmund Freud starts chapter 7 of his Psychopathology…
József Balogh: From UE price cap to Russian fur hat (usanka)
The idea of price fixing is having a real renaissance in Central Europe. If any of the retired employees of…
Any dream will do – Jozsef Balogh on the Azerbaijan, Georgia, Romania, Hungary Dream-cable
Motto “A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” John Lennon …
Jozsef Balogh presents the short history of Hungarian “rezsicsökkentés” (Energynomics Magazine)
If you wish to have a heated discussion with an average Hungarian, you do not have to talk about soccer…
Hungarian government scraps price cap on fuels as shortage worsens
Hungary’s government scrapped a price cap on fuels on Tuesday after a lack of imports and panic buying led to…
Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, and Hungary agree for the grid interconnection to enable bi-directional flows of natural gas
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between DESFA (Greece), Bulgartransgaz (Bulgaria), FGSZ (Hungary), Transgaz (Romania), ICGB (Bulgaria) and Gastrade…
Renewables industry calls for adoption of REPowerEU targets and inter-ministerial coordination
Romania’s renewables industry presented on Friday the updated form RES Roadmap to 2030, a study conducted by Deloitte at the…
A. Keresztes (Astrasun): Hungarian companies could relocate to Romania to develop renewable projects
Romania and Hungary have many similarities and both are at a point where they could create global renewable energy and…
Hungary will have to invest 2.4 billion euros per year for 30 years to eliminate CO2 emissions
Hungary will have to spend 2.4 billion euros annually over the next 30 years to reach the objective set by…
Jozsef Balogh: An (almost) perfect match – the missed cooperation between the Romanian and Hungarian electricity systems
Coupling Eastern European electricity markets at the European level was a big mistake. This forced project was created to hide…
Hungary badly needs Black Sea gas, but Romania needs to clarify its offshore legislation
Hungary is in great need of gas from the Neptune perimeter in the Black Sea, due to its massive dependence…
Romania and Hungary have to trust each other to make money together
Romania and Hungary are like yin and yang and could create a long-term business partnership if they could trust each…
Technical due diligence is a necessity for investments in renewables
Reducing CO2 emissions is the bridge between traditional industries and the renewable energy industry, emphasized Anca Mutu-Kovács, SAMER / LRQA,…
SO WHAT hosts the final workshop “Supporting opportunities for waste heat and cold valorization” – Constanța, 17 November
The SO WHAT project (Supporting new Opportunities for Waste Heat And cold valorization Towards EU decarbonization) is hosting its final…
Hungary ranks 3rd in the world in terms of battery production capacity
Hungary ranks 3rd in the world in terms of battery production capacity and the 5th when it comes to exporting…
Hungary suddenly changes course for solar industry by suspending the feed-in system
Gergely Gulyás, the minister of the Prime Minister’s Office, announced at the government briefing last week that the electricity generated…
Ukraine has stopped electricity exports; fast reaction from Transelectrica
The Ukrainian electricity grid operator, NPC UKRENERGO, was working on Monday evening to restore electricity supplies to the country after…
RPIA: The industry must decarbonise or it will shut down
The alternative to the decarbonisation of the industry is its closure, but Romania now has sufficient funds to be able…
D. Drăgan: Romania will triple its renewable energy production capacity by 2030
Romania would install 10,000 MW in new energy generation projects from renewable sources that will be financed through the National…
The Republic of Moldova wants to become an energy corridor to the EU
This year, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine completed the synchronization of their national energy systems with the states of…