Energy
French President Sarkozy pushes use of more nuclear energy
March 10, 2010By Lisa Bryant French President Nicolas Sarkozy is urging the world community to embrace nuclear energy as an indispensable tool in the fight against global warming. Mr. Sarkozy also called for poor countries in particular to have access to nuclear power...
Medvedev faces a number of new challenges in energy strategy
March 08, 2010By Pavel K. Baev Medvedev discards the ambition of “Energy Super-Power” Upon his return from the trip to Paris last week, President Dmitry Medvedev held a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister, Igor Sechin, who is supervising the energy sector...
Russian energy expansion hits a slowdown
March 03, 2010BySergei Blagov Against the background of difficult international energy market conditions Russian companies have become less interested in finding new oil and gas fields and developing existing deposits. Notably, the country’s gas monopoly Gazprom...
11 countries in Central, Southeastern Europe hold energy summit
March 03, 2010By Vladimir Socor Hungary hosts region-wide summit on energy security The prime ministers of eleven countries in Central and Southeastern Europe met on February 24 in Budapest, for the first Energy Security Summit in this region. Hungary initiated...
Moldova to receive €273M from the European Union in 2011-2013
March 03, 2010On Tuesday, the College of European Commissars approved 16-of-19 programs of the European Neighborhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI), whose aggregate budget is € 4.2 billion, the international media have reported. All in all, the European Union...
Moldova cut volume of gas bought from Russian Gazprom in 2009
March 01, 2010Moldova (without the Transnistrian region) bought 1.126,3 million cubic metres of gas from the Russian concern Gazprom in 2009, which is by 8.2 per cent less against 2008, according to a report by the National Agency for Regulation of Energy (ANRE). ...
Cuciurgan power plant to sell cheaper electricity to right bank of Dniestre
February 25, 2010The Cuciurgan power plan (left bank of Dniestre or the Nistru River) will deliver electric energy to operators from the right bank of Dniestre at a price of 5.5 cents for one KW/hour starting from 1 March 2010, against 5.8 cents per one KW/hour so far...
Moldova says Russia hikes gas price by 20 percent
January 06, 2010Moldovan Economy Minister Valeriu Lazar says Russia's Gazprom raised the natural gas price for Moldova by more than 20 percent on January 1, RFE/RL's Moldovan Service reports. The new price, which is valid for the first quarter of the year, is reportedly...
Does declining demand in gas mean the end of Gazprom’s reign?
January 05, 2010By Stacy Closson Just over 18 months ago, Russia was predicting a bright future for Gazprom, stating that its capitalization would exceed $1 trillion by 2015 and its shares would be trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Today, the story is very...
EU to raise number of energy projects for Moldova
November 27, 2009The European Union is ready to increase the number of energy projects, which will be implemented in Moldova in the near two years in the frame of the INOGATE program. According to the press service of the Minister of Economy, head of the expert group...
