ANALYSIS
Friday, February 26, 2021
by Chryssa Liaggou
The prospects of green energy have rekindled the flame of interest from German energy firm RWE in Greece’s Public Power Corporation (PPC), first expressed in 2008 with plans for joining forces in the construction of two coal-fired plants with a total output of 1.6 gigawatts.
ANALYSIS
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
by Chryssa Liaggou*
The Biden administration will “maintain a degree of continuity” on US policy for developing a strong energy market in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean, according to former assistant secretary of state for energy resources Frank Fannon, who was one of the driving forces behind the Greece-Cyprus-Israel trilateral partnership.
ANALYSIS
Thursday, February 18, 2021
by Frédéric Simon*
The industry is growing increasingly nervous about European Commission plans to evaluate the safety of radioactive waste handling as an expert report is expected next month on how to classify nuclear energy under the EU’s green finance taxonomy
ANALYSIS
Wednesday, February 3, 2021
Greece and Bulgaria advanced the development of three natural gas projects this week that will lessen the two countries’ dependence on Russian gas. Greece’s parliament ratified on January 26 a cooperation agreement on the Interconnector Greece-Bulgaria (IGB) pipeline and the foundation treaty of the EastMed Gas Forum (EMGF) while two days later Bulgaria’s state gas company Bulgartransgaz finalised a deal to take 20% of Greek company Gastrade, which is developing the Alexandroupolis foating LNG