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11.02.2022

Power Producer Slovenske Elektrarne Will Pay Excess Profits Tax

The Cabinet also agreed to a proposal that the bill be discussed in a fast-track legislative procedure because it shall take effect as of March 1, 2022.

10.02.2022

Slovenske Elektrarne to defend against special tax

If the new tax is eventually approved, Slovenske Elektrarne will certainly stop the completion of the fourth unit of the Mochovce Nuclear Power Plant. The commissioning of the third unit is also in jeopardy.

25.01.2022

Third nuclear unit in Mochovce is closer to fuel loading

The Nuclear Regulatory Authority of the Slovak Republic (UJD) has released the documents for the final permit for commissioning of the third nuclear unit in Mochovce.

19.01.2022

Deregulation of energy prices is to bring several benefits

According to Vychodoslovenska Energetika, deregulation should, among other things, help the development of new technologies.

04.01.2022

Lowest gas flow from Russia to Slovakia in two months

Gas supplies to home point in Slovakia are stable.

Plynovod eustream Veľké Kapušany stanica

03.01.2022

New NPP could rise in Bohunice in 18 years at the earliest

Economy Ministry’s State Secretary Karol Galek said in an interview for the SITA newswire, the project of the new nuclear installation, on which the company Jadrova Energeticka Spolocnost Slovenska (JESS) is working, is still alive.

21.12.2021

The new nuclear plant project in Bohunice in progress

The company JESS plans to build a large solar park for roughly 60 million euros.

09.12.2021

Mochovce No3 Unit Not to Obtain Permit for Operation in 2021

It is unclear when Mochovce project could receive the final permit for the commissioning of the third unit from the UJD. The director of the UJD did not want to specify it either.

15.11.2021

Minister Sulik will block the sale of SSE Holding

Economy Minister Richard Sulik says that the state has no intention to exercise the right of first refusal during the sale of Stredoslovenska Energetika Holding.

25.10.2021

Mochovce No.3 Nuclear Unit closer to commercial operation

The date of fuel loading into the reactor of the third unit of the Mochovce nuclear power plant depends on the procedure of the second-instance body.

12.10.2021

Big changes ahead in Slovak energy

The existing price regulation of electricity supply for small businesses and households is set to be scrapped on the same day, January 1, 2023.

26.09.2021

Modernization of Gabcikovo hydropower plant in not at hand

The state-owned company Vodohospodarska Vystavba plans to announce a new international tender as soon as possible.

09.09.2021

Sulik's ministry prepares an amendment to the Energy Law

The Ministry of Economy plans to implement the European winter energy package in Slovak legislation.

31.08.2021

Eustream to be ready to transport hydrogen from end of 2023

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.

20.08.2021

State prepares new energy poverty concept

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.