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8.4.19. Hydropower plant Gabcikovo still awaits general overhaul ( SITAenergetika.sk)

The state-controlled company Vodohospodarska Vystavba has failed to select a supplier in an international tender after roughly one-and-half-year.

5.4.19. UJD inspects Mochovce NPP regularly ( SITAenergetika.sk)

According to the Nuclear Regulation Authority, Austrian non-government organization GLOBAL 2000 is attempting to halt the completion of Mochovce NPP by any means, including scaremongering.

4.4.19. Austrians attack new Mochovce nuclear units ( SITAenergetika.sk)

Slovenske Elektrarne rejects any shortcomings in the completion of the third and fourth nuclear unit in Mochovce.

2.4.19. Regulator warns about door-to-door salesmen ( SITAenergetika.sk)

The Regulatory Office for Network Industries says that some salespersons of power suppliers are misleading consumers with false information.

25.3.19. Regulator may pay fine for flawed public procurement ( SITAenergetika.sk)

The Public Procurement Office has initiated legal proceedings in connection with three orders when the Regulatory Office for Network Industries attempted to avoid the procedure for above threshold contracts.

20.3.19. Vouchers for solar collectors gone in seven minutes ( SITAenergetika.sk)

The Slovak Innovative and Energy Agency handed out 490 vouchers for the installation of solar collectors to households outside the Bratislava region in the first round.

20.3.19. State heat company paid 33 million euros to Cypriot company ( SITAenergetika.sk)

The state-owned central heating company Bratislavska Teplarenska was expected to pay more than 9 million euros to the company Paroplyn Holdings Limited at the beginning of the dispute.

8.3.19. Slovak gas pipeline project Eastring makes progress ( SITAenergetika.sk)

Slovakia’s natural gas carrier Eustream has made progress in talks with potential partners in the past months.

4.3.19. Slovakia is not self-sufficient in electricity generation ( SITAenergetika.sk)

Last year’s electricity generation in Slovakia reached over 27,000 GWh and electricity consumption almost 31,000 GWh.

21.2.19. Ministers plan inspection of Mochovce NPP ( SITAenergetika.sk)

The date of the planned inspection of Economy Minister Peter Ziga and Prime Minister Petre Pellegrini has not yet been set.

19.2.19. Drought caused electricity generation drop ( SITAenergetika.sk)

Slovenske Elektrarne (SE), which holds has almost a 70-percent share on the electricity market, generated 18,368 GWh of electricity last year and delivered 16,778 GWh to the grid.

18.2.19. Companies from more than 60 sectors may get compensation ( SITAenergetika.sk)

The Ministry of Economy has issued a decree which sets the list of eligible industrial sectors, extent and structure of administration and the provision of compensation.

13.2.19. Hydro-test on Mochovce third nuclear unit successful so far ( SITAenergetika.sk)

The Nuclear Supervisory Authority says that the test of the tightness and integrity of the hermetic zone, both underpressure and overpressure, achieved an excellent result.

11.2.19. Thousands of euros to go back to heat and water customers ( SITAenergetika.sk)

Last year, some companies charged higher prices for heat and water supply than approved the regulator.

8.2.19. No large energy project got ministry’s certificate in 2018 ( SITAenergetika.sk)

The projects which received the permission from the Economy Ministry last year concerned mostly the construction of new energy infrastructure and renovation of energy facilities.

8.2.19. ZSE to let households store electricity in virtual battery ( SITAenergetika.sk)

The company Zapadoslovenska Energetika (ZSE) will offer Slovak households a virtual battery to store abundant electricity.

30.1.19. Electricity price on European market to be fairer ( SITAenergetika.sk)

National regulators in Germany, Austria, Poland and countries associated in the market coupling, such as Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romany have already asked to launch a temporary project of the interconnection of daily electricity markets among the countries mentioned above.

25.1.19. SEPS to invest 83 million euros this year ( SITAenergetika.sk)

The biggest investment planned by SEPS this year is the complex Transformation 400/110 kV Bystricany.

23.1.19. VSE calls for gradual stop to energy prices regulation ( SITAenergetika.sk)

The power supplier Vychodoslovenska Energetika registered last year that the concept of the intelligent household is spreading in Slovakia.

18.1.19. Slovak grid at threat due to German-Austrian problems ( SITAenergetika.sk)

One of the units of the nuclear power plant responded correctly and moved into the operation mode which enables to cope with crisis situations.

17.1.19. EU may contribute more for decommissioning of Bohunice NPP ( SITAenergetika.sk)

Bohunice programme in the period 2021 – 2027 will be subject to a minimum EU co-financing rate set at 50 percent, rather than to a maximum rate of 50 percent, as the European Commission proposed.

11.1.19. Energy companies unlikely to get rid of special levy ( SITAenergetika.sk)

At least one coalition political party does not agree with scrapping the special levy for regulated entities.

10.1.19. Zapadoslovenska Distribuca invested mostly in networks and electromobility ( SITAenergetika.sk)

The distribution company Zapadoslovenska Distribucna invested more than 93 million euros in 2018.

8.1.19. SPP successful on gas and electricity market ( SITAenergetika.sk)

SPP is expecting its market share on the retail electricity market to reach more than 8 percent in 2018.

8.1.19. Smooth gas deliveries from Russia across Ukraine ( SITAenergetika.sk)

The company Eustream did not record any disruptions with gas deliveries from Russia across Ukraine during holidays or over the first days of the year 2019.

7.1.19. Tender for general overall of Gabcikovo plant to end soon ( SITAenergetika.sk)

The company Vodohospodarska Vystavba expects to complete a tender for a supplier of the general overhaul of the hydro-power plant Gabcikovo in the first quarter 2019.

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12.12.18. Coal subsidies are nearing their end ( SITAenergetika.sk)

The government decided to shorten the general economic interest in connection of coal mining for the purposes of electricity generation from the year 2030 to 2023.