EU Commissioner responsible for the Energy Union, Maros Sefcovic, says that the European Commission fully respects the sovereignty over energy mix. Renewables should be built in suitable places.
Economy Minister Peter Ziga as well as the highest representatives of the gas companies SPP, Eustream, SPP – Distribucia and Nafta agreed that Slovakia is facing no gas crisis threat.
Every consumer in the tariff D1 – small flats with consumption up to 1,000 kWh – will save money next year, informed the head of the Regulatory Office for Network Industries, Jozef Holjencik.
The regulator admits that the major problem in solving energy poverty is to define it, measure its level and identify people who need help with energy bills.
Economy Minister Peter Ziga has not yet received replies from the shareholders of Slovenske Elektrarne concerning the meeting where the completion of the two nuclear blocks in Mochovce would be resolved.
SSE’s market share in electricity supplies has been levelled off for already several years, says the head of the company’s Board of Directors Office, Michaela Kriva.
The company Vychodoslovenska Distribucna (VSD) says that distribution companies today bear the difference between the costs of the additional payment for the so-called green electricity and the revenues under the support scheme.
Slovakia’s daily gas deliveries to Ukraine reached from 41.5 million to almost 43 million cubic meters in December, but fell moderately to roughly 40 million cubic meters over the first days of the year 2017.
The Constitutional Court declined Slovenske Elektrarne’s complaint against the steps taken by the Supreme Court which dismissed the appeal of the Slovak dominant electricity producer in connection with the trial over the invalidity of the contract on the operation of the Gabcikovo hydropower plant.
The leader of OLaNO, Igor Matovic, says that the troubles with energy prices are the result of the parties’ nominations in state bodies of the distribution companies.