The restrictions at the borders, especially with Hungary and the Czech Republic, are partly complicating the construction of the Slovak-Polish gas pipeline as some sub-suppliers are unable to access the site.
The new leadership at the economy ministry is ready to sell the state shares in power companies operating on the free market. Natural monopolies and Slovenske Elektrarne will not be put up for sale.
The company SEPS continues ensuring safe and reliable operation and management of the grid in a real time despite suspended production in large companies which led to the electricity consumption reduction.
Slovenske Elektrarne, a dominant electricity producer in Slovakia, generated 18,865 GWh of electricity in 2019, an increase by 1.2 percent year-on-year.
Four natural bodies and one legal person have been charged. A spokesman for the Police Forces Michal Slivka informed that many other suspicions are being scrutinized in connection with the Mochovce project.
Decommissioning of the V1 nuclear power plant in Jaslovske Bohunice is currently in the second stage, the total costs are estimated at 1.237 billion euros.
The police team coded Elektra has been carrying out a raid in Mochovce for the second day in a row. According to the Police, various low-quality materials were supplied to the Mochovce nuclear units through several companies.
The UJD started the administration proceeding in connection with the issuance of relevant permissions already in 2016. It was repeatedly interrupted as the power utility Slovenske Elektrarne was requested by the authority to add necessary data.
The maximum electricity price which the ministry will accept is 84.98 euros per 1 MWh for solar and wind energy and 106.80 euros per 1 MWh for all other types of RES.
Economy Minister Peter Ziga has presented an idea not to pay the tariff for the operation of the system only through electricity prices, but also from the state budget and the sale of emission allowances.
The Public Procurement Office has received two motions and launched an inquiry into the international tender of the general overhaul of Gabcikovo hydropower plant.
The above-average natural gas transport in 2019 can partly be ascribed to customers’ attempts to get ready for possible natural gas shortages from Ukraine.
The Vojany – Uzhgorod gas pipeline is currently used only to 25 percent. Daily natural gas deliveries through the Slovak-Ukrainian gas pipeline amounted to 10 – 12 million cubic meters over the first days of the year 2020.
Sales Director at the company Východoslovenska Energetika Miroslav Kulla informed that more than 20 percent of the customers who decided to switch to another supplier last year felt misled by a new supplier.
The power utility Slovenske Elektrarne wants to do everything to start nuclear fuel loading, e.g. the operation of the nuclear unit at the end of April 2020.