Interview

Gas Policy of Ukraine requests silence and reliability

November 17, 2010

Eugene Bakulin, Chairman of the National Joint Stock Company "Naftogaz of Ukraine" At this point in time Ukraine plans: - to find hydrocarbons in the Black Sea shelf, to reconstruct gas transportation system and to establish itself as a reliable partner for both Russia and Europe. Chairman of the Board of Naftogaz of Ukraine "Eugene Bakulin at the exhibition" Oil and Gas-2010 "in Kiev told readers of EnergyLand.info about priority plans of development of the gas industry in Ukraine.

Balancing model of energy market by 2011will require changes in legislation

November 17, 2010

Nikolaj Martynenko, chairman of the Committee on Fuel and Energy Complex, Nuclear Policy and Nuclear Safety of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine at its November exhibition "Power & Energy 2010" that was held in Kiev, told readers of EnergyLand.info, what legislative acts Ukraine needs for the effective development of energy complex.

Alexey Sergeev, Vice-governor of St. Petersburg

October 11, 2010

The energy of St. Petersburg

Last year of the electricity reform in Russia: natural “decline” or successful completion?

April 29, 2010

In Finland, at the second international conference on electric power problems, experts compared the results of Russia's electricity reform with similar transformations in other European countries, discussed how to solve the problem of defaults on the retail and wholesale electricity market, without rolling to administrative monopolies, argued about the necessity of energy corridor from Russia to Finland in the area Kovdor.

The first of the Olympic facilities

April 07, 2010

The second stage of the Sochi’s thermal power station is the first of generating objects that must be built for the Olympics in 2014. Configuration of the Sochi’s station is unique; at present there are no similar stations in Russia. The general director of Open Society "GlobalElektroService" Eldar Nagaplov in this interview told to the correspondent of EnergyLand.info some interesting facts about a course of construction and technological features of the power unit .

«The truth about Sayan-Shushensk’s «iceberg»»

February 24, 2010

A giant ice wart, that has formed during the severe frosts on the trestles of the Sayan-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station (above the dissipating basin) looks menacing, but it poses no threat either to the trestle, and even less for Sayan-Shushensk HPS.

Fifty-fifty

December 14, 2009

Yuri Shevelev, Minister of Energy and Utilities of the Sverdlovsk region, believes that the harmonization and implementation of development programs in the region will provide a balance of energy consumption and energy production; the optimal proportion of imported and local fuel resources and the orderly development of alternative energy and energy conservation technologies will enable the region to become energy efficient.