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Analyses | | Tomasz Dąborowski

Bulgaria cheaper gas from Russia in exchange for the approval of South Stream

On November 15, the Bulgarian state-owned gas distributor Bulgargaz signed a ten-year contract with Russian Gazprom regarding the annual purchase of 2.9 billion m3 of gas. The contract will come into force at the beginning of 2013. Details…
Analyses | | Tomasz Dąborowski, Andrzej Sadecki, Marta Szpala

Progress in the preparations for building South Stream

Russia’s Gazprom and the state-controlled Serbian and Hungarian energy companies on 29 and 31 October passed final investment decisions concerning the construction of the Serbian and Hungarian sections of the South Stream gas pipeline.…
Analyses | | Tomasz Dąborowski

Bulgaria a demonstration of the multi-dimensional nature of the energy policy

On 27–29 August, Bulgaria entered into a number of important energy agreements. A contract for preparing the feasibility study for the project to develop the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant was signed with the US-Japanese corporation,…
Analyses | | Tomasz Dąborowski

New opening in energy relations between Bulgaria and Russia

Last week has brought new developments in Bulgarian-Russian energy relations, when the Bulgarian government withdrew from a project to build a nuclear power plant in Belene. This meant the failure of its second flagship energy project…
Analyses | | Joanna Hyndle-Hussein

Decommissioning of nuclear power plants a growing problem for the EU

On 8 February, the European Court of Auditors published an audit report on the shut down nuclear power plants in Bulgaria (Kozloduy), Lithuania (Ignalina) and Slovakia (Bohunice). It revealed a significant delay in the EU-funded process…
Analyses | | Tomasz Dąborowski

Bulgaria is no longer interested in shale gas

On 18 January, the Bulgarian parliament imposed a total ban on the use of the hydraulic fracturing technology applied in the exploration and production of shale gas and oil.