EU prepares EUR 1 billion auction for decarbonizing process heat
The European Commission will launch a Europe-wide auction for projects decarbonizing industrial process heat. It earmarked EUR 1 billion for support.
Italy allows nuclear power, four decades after first ban
Italy adopted a law that sets the stage for the return of nuclear energy, but only through new technologies. The government is hoping to get the first facility online in less than ten years. “Today we import electricity produced by nuclear power plants in neighboring countries, but we cannot produce it ourselves,” Prime Minister Giorgia […]
Former minister Andrej Vizjak becomes CEO of Slovenia’s GEN energija; GEN-I also gets new chief
Slovenian state-owned energy companies GEN energija and its subsidiary GEN-I got new chief executive officers: Andrej Vizjak and Jure Soklič, respectively
IAEA launches ATLAS initiative to promote nuclear energy in shipping, floating nuclear power plants
The IAEA has launched a global initiative called ATLAS to promote nuclear energy in shipping and floating nuclear power plants
Magyar: Hungarian nuclear plant Paks to return to regular operation
Hungary's emergency engineering works and the forecasted rise of the Danube level enabled the country's nuclear power plant Paks to restart its idle reactors
Danube nears critically low level at Bulgaria’s Kozloduy nuclear plant
Nuclear power plant Kozloduy in Bulgaria is on the brink of emergency output reduction as the Danube water level is approaching a critically low point
Energy, water crisis spreads as Danube region is clinging on power imports
The downstream Danube region is increasingly depending on electricity imports and interconnections, while leaning on solar power and energy storage on the home front.
Greece setting up nuclear energy committee
Greece is establishing an interministerial group responsible for scientific research and legal framework for the possibility of building the first nuclear plant or plants