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19.5. Will households have zero VAT on gas? ( venergetike.sk)

Households would thus see their gas bills increase only by 10-15 percent in 2022.

9.5. Situation on electricity and gas markets unbearable ( venergetike.sk)

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.

27.4. Slovakia is to pay in euros for Russian gas, PM Heger says ( venergetike.sk)

Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic Eduard Heger announced that Russia would not break Western unity and solidarity.

6.4. Cabinet approves large energy amendment ( venergetike.sk)

The big amendment to the Energy Act also introduces partial deregulation of retail electricity and gas prices.

6.4. Sulik disagrees with embargo on Russian gas and oil imports ( venergetike.sk)

Economy Minister Richard Sulik has no major problem with a ban on coal imports from Russia

29.3. Tender for Gabcikovo HPP overhaul has not been announced yet ( venergetike.sk)

The state-controlled company Vodohospodarska Vystavba plans to announce the international tender of innovations and modernization of Gabcikovo hydropower plant as soon as possible.

16.3. More nuclear fuel arrives in Slovakia from Russia ( venergetike.sk)

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.

11.3. Caputova: Slovakia needs to slash dependence on Russian gas ( venergetike.sk)

Caputova: Slovakia needs to slash dependence on Russian gas.

10.3. Slovenske Elektrarne strives to diversify nuclear fuel supply ( venergetike.sk)

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.

Vonkajšie potrubia kompresorovej stanice Eustream

8.3. Banning Russian gas imports would harm EU more than Russia ( venergetike.sk)

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.

10.2. Slovenske Elektrarne to defend against special tax ( venergetike.sk)

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.

25.1. Third nuclear unit in Mochovce is closer to fuel loading ( venergetike.sk)

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.

19.1. Deregulation of energy prices is to bring several benefits ( venergetike.sk)

According to Vychodoslovenska Energetika, deregulation should, among other things, help the development of new technologies.

Plynovod eustream Veľké Kapušany stanica

4.1. Lowest gas flow from Russia to Slovakia in two months ( venergetike.sk)

Gas supplies to home point in Slovakia are stable.

20.12.21. The new nuclear plant project in Bohunice in progress ( venergetike.sk)

The company JESS plans to build a large solar park for roughly 60 million euros.

9.12.21. Mochovce No3 Unit Not to Obtain Permit for Operation in 2021 ( venergetike.sk)

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.

3.12.21. New NPP could rise in Bohunice in 18 years at the earliest ( venergetike.sk)

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.

11.11.21. Minister Sulik will block the sale of SSE Holding ( venergetike.sk)

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.