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Bulgaria utilities regulator postpones electricity price hike

June 29, 2015June 30, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Bulgaria’s Energy and Water Regulatory Commission (EWRC) said on June 29 that it has decided to postpone the implementation of

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Bulgaria utilities regulator pleads case for electricity price hike

June 24, 2015June 24, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff energy

The head of Bulgaria’s utilities regulator told MPs on June 24 that implementing the changed pricing formula proposed by the

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Bulgaria ‘hopes’ to receive Russian reply on gas hub proposal – minister

June 22, 2015June 24, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency energy

Bulgaria was hoping to receive a Russian answer to its proposal to build a gas hub in the country by

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Bulgaria’s electricity price hike row reaches Parliament

June 22, 2015June 24, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff energy

The simmering opposition to plans by Bulgaria’s utilities regulator to increase electricity prices starting July 1 appears to have reached

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Signing of investment agreement on Greece-Bulgaria gas interconnector ‘will happen’, Greek FM says

June 19, 2015June 19, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency energy, Greece

Greek foreign minister Nikos Kotzias has given his personal undertaking that the signing of the final investment agreement on the

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Borissov: Bulgaria strongly committed to gas interconnectors, especially with Greece

June 11, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency energy, Greece

Bulgaria is strongly committed to the construction of gas interconnectors, especially with Greece, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said at

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On the chessboard of the powerful, is Serbia a pawn?

June 11, 2015 Deutsche Welle energy, Russia, Serbia, South Stream

There are not many top politicians today who still know the names of the entire Russian ice hockey team that

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Second electricity distributor files arbitration claim against Bulgaria

June 8, 2015June 9, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Czech-owned Energo-Pro became the second electricity distribution firm to file an arbitration claim against Bulgaria with the World Bank’s arbitration

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Last foreign player pulls out of Polish shale gas

June 8, 2015 The Warsaw Voice energy, Poland

US energy company ConocoPhillips has said it is stopping exploration for shale gas in Poland amid unsatisfactory results, the last

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