According to the head of the parliamentary economic committee, Peter Kremsky, it is high time to put the third nuclear unit of the Mochovce Nuclear Power Plant into operation.
The Ministry of the Environment does not plan to present the idea of the temporary suspension of the European Emission Trading System on European soil.
According to the Association of Energy Suppliers, introducing a “variable item” into energy billing may help prevent the fall of energy suppliers or termination of contracts that occurred in the market recently.
The state-controlled company Vodohospodarska Vystavba plans to announce the international tender of innovations and modernization of Gabcikovo hydropower plant as soon as possible.
Minister of Economy Richard Sulik wrote on the social network that the four Slovak nuclear power units in Jaslovske Bohunice and Mochovce have thus sufficient nuclear fuel supply for their full performance this year.
About seven years ago, Slovenske Elektrarne concluded a contract with the French company Areva, but it only concerned the supply of enriched uranium for nuclear fuel supplied by a Russian company.
The Slovak natural gas carrier, Eustream, therefore does not consider the suspension of Russian gas imports to be appropriate among the other measures that the EU can adopt against Russia amid the war in Ukraine.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.