Energy

The Russian state company Rosatom has begun industrial manufacturing of the zirconium sponge required for nuclear fuel assemblies. This is a completely homegrown breakthrough technology that will allow nuclear fuel exports to rise since this material is required for fuel manufacture in foreign-designed reactors, Nezavisimaya Gazeta writes. So far,...

The gas price on October 6 renewed its record - it jumped by 39% to $1970 per thousand cubic meters. Coal has not lagged behind - the price of fuel exceeded $300, which is 6% more than the record in 2008, according to the ICE intercontinental exchange in London. The...

On Monday, the price of Gazprom's common shares surpassed the 2008 record high. The continuous increase in stock market prices for gas in Europe is one of the major reasons boosting the company's capitalization, and there are signs that the energy industry will only expand, TASS quotes Rossiyskaya Gazeta.  On...

Gazprom has never denied the possibility of direct contracts with Ukraine on gas supplies, this is a matter of negotiations and expediency, the press secretary of the Russian President, Dmitry Peskov said. Since November 2015, Ukraine has stopped direct purchases of gas from Russia, but it receives Russian gas through...

The US will continue to oppose the Nord Stream 2 (SP-2) project, US State Department spokesman Ned Price said. On the eve, Gazprom began to fill the first line of SP-2 with gas, said the pipeline operator Nord Stream 2 AG (owned by Gazprom). "We do not have a concrete answer...

Power unit No. 1 of the Belarusian NPP (BelNPP) is again included in the grid. The power unit shut down on July 12 after the automatic protection of the generator was triggered, according to the Ministry of Energy of Belarus, local media reported. At the power unit, the parts of...

According to the Kommersant daily, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to explore building two nuclear power facilities on the Black Sea coast. According to the Russian president's press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, Erdogan and Putin met last week and discussed the building of a nuclear...

Gas transit through Ukraine to Hungary resumed after a temporary suspension, the Hungarian operator of the gas transmission system FGSZ said, Izvestia reported. According to the operator, the gas flow through the "Beregovo" point on the border with Ukraine is currently 2.134 million cubic meters per hour, while earlier on...

The Senator from the Perm Territory, Aleksey Pushkov explained what motivated European authorities to approve the decision to start deliveries of Russian gas to Hungary, bypassing Ukraine, Izvestia writes. “In the modern world, a medium-sized regional topic cannot be in the spotlight for a long time. We are tired of...

Faced with a severe energy deficit, China requested an increase in supplies from Russia. Inter RAO sells about 3 billion kWh from Russia's Far East to China each year. According to Kommersant's interviews with specialists, Russia may provide an extra 2 billion kWh by the end of the year....