MOL fails to acquire all Slovnaft shares

Hungarian energy group MOL raised its share in the refinery Slovnaft from 98.56 % to 98.72 % within a voluntary takeover bid. The company denies any suspicions of manipulation.
Slovnaft, ropa, rafinérie, MOL

Weekly: How Prime Minister Spreads Fear Among Investors

Last week, Czech energy group CEZ was the first company which started considering its absence in the final stage of the sale of a 66-percent stake in the power utility Slovenske Elektrarne. Prime Minister’s statements that he will to let Italians leave Slovakia are to be blamed.
Ilustračné foto

Weekly: Incredible Tangled Sale

Slovak Prime Minister may award himself with a green card for knotting the sale of Slovenske Elektrarne thanks to what he may come out as the winner of this matter. This will surely be helpful ahead of parliamentary elections.
Robert Fico

Weekly: Energy shopping maniac

Newly appointed economy minister who was behind „the state takeover“ of the hydropower plant in Gabcikovo wants to purchase Slovenske Elektrarne’s shares.
Minister hospodárstva Peter Žiga MH

Slovak-Polish gas pipeline ready in three years

The project has reached two significant milestones – EIA and the important certificate for modification of compressor station in Velke Kapusany, which is a part of the Slovak-Polish gas pipeline, from the economy ministry.
Plynovod

State ecologists found no problems in new NPP project

The investor of the new nuclear power plant in Jaslovske Bohunice will be obliged to meet more than 130 conditions and measures during the implementation of the project as well as during the operation of the nuclear power plant.
Jaslovské Bohunice atómová elektráreň SE

Police investigation in Slovenske Elektrarne in progress

The number of the accused persons has not increased since autumn 2015. The police have accused six people, five of in particular serious crime of violation of the obligation when administering someone else’s property and misrepresentation of financial and trade records.
Slovenské elektrárne SE

Slovakia connected with gas industry for already 160 years

More than 100 years ago, natural gas and oil deposits were found in Zahorie. Slovakia has mined about 26.5 billion cubic meters of natural gas, 3.7 million tons of oil and 0.4 million tons of gasoline since the beginning of the hydrocarbons extraction.
Svetlo plyn lampa

Tens of millions paid for nuclear waste disposal

Electricity consumers are to pay almost 71 million euros for decommissioning nuclear installations and disposal of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste via this year’s bills. It was more than 67 million euros last year.
Bohunice elektráreň atómová SE

Opposition failed to change Act on Thermal Energy

Josef Viskupic, Eduard Heger (both OLaNO-NOVA) and Karol Galek (SaS) proposed so that large heat producers were not allowed to participate in the construction proceeding for the construction of residential boiler rooms.
Národná rada SR NR

Consumers unlikely to pay more for nuclear decommissioning

Although the state budget for the years 2016-2018 expects consumers to pay 71 million eurso for a so-called back-end fuel cycle this year, which is roughly 4 million euros more than last year, the company JAVYS states that this sum may be different in the end.
JAVYS