News from the region

Poland’s government adopted a plan to accelerate its transformation to clean energy and nuclear energy. Poland seeks renewables and nuclear power as a way to meet its energy goals. The country’s new energy policy would create around 300,000 jobs. Poland aims to reduce [...]

“We are convinced of the strength of the arguments put forward by Poland. Currently, our cooperation with the European Commission on OPAL and many other key topics for EU energy security is constructive and undertaken in a spirit of a very good cooperation” said [...]

Construction of the largest photovoltaic power plant in Central and Eastern Europe will start in 1Q 2021 in Pomerania, Northern Poland. The photovoltaic power plant in Zwartów will have 203 MW of installed capacity and will produce approximately 6 TWh of energy over [...]

On November 30th, the Ministry of Energy in the Republic of Lithuania announced the successful completion of an agreement establishing a hydrogen platform between 19 Lithuanian organizations, including the Ministry of Economy and Innovation and the Ministry of [...]

Lithuania embarks on a mission to build one of the largest battery storage systems in the world, which is expected to be finalized by the end of 2021.The country is investing €100 million to build four 50 Megawatt(MW) batteries with at least of 200 Megawatt hours [...]

The Republic of Croatia is approaching its final stages in the development of a Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) terminal in the Adriatic Sea. The official launch for Croatia’s first LNG terminal is set for January 1, 2021, with a capacity of 2.6 billion cubic meters (bcm) of [...]

A Commission proposal to invest nearly €1 billion in European energy infrastructure was approved by EU Member States. The large amount of funding will be allocated to 5 key European energy projects under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) and 3 of them are located [...]

The 8 EU Member States, including Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, signed a joint declaration of intent committing themselves to closer cooperation around the development of the Baltic Sea offshore wind energy area. The declaration emphasized the potential of [...]

Latvia’s Minister for Economics Janis Vitenbergs and Estonia’s Economy and Infrastructure Minister Taavi Aas have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the joint project of the offshore wind farm construction. “The development of wind energy over the next decade is [...]

The development of offshore wind in Poland and Lithuania is accelerating as the governments of both countries prepare to adopt the regulatory framework for the construction and functioning of the offshore wind farms. The countries plan to use a so-called contract for [...]

Polish Oil and Gas Company (PGNiG) and Toyota Motor Poland signed an agreement on cooperation in advancing technology in Poland. A pilot hydrogen refuelling station will be built under this agreement. Jerzy Kwieciński, President of the PGNiG Management Board said that [...]

The Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian energy ministries reached an agreement on regulating power trade with non-EU countries. Under this agreement, the trade in electricity with Belarus will stop after the launch of the Astravets nuclear power plant. The agreement, [...]

The Commission adopted last week implementing act setting the rules on the operation of the Modernisation Fund, a funding mechanism to support 10 EU Member States in their transition to climate neutrality by helping to modernise their energy systems and improve energy [...]

Croatia’s floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on the Adriatic island of Krk will start operating on Jan. 1, 2021, having its full capacity booked for the next few years. The capacity of the Krk LNG terminal is 2.6 billion cubic metres (bcm) of gas per year. [...]

On 1 July 2020 the rotating presidency of the Visegrad Group (V4) began. This is the sixth Polish presidency of V4 and it will end on the 30 June 2021. The Polish Presidency will run under the motto "Back on track". The Visegrad cooperation will focus not only on [...]

CEEP is proud to be a partner of the PowerUp Challenge, which is a benchmarking event for innovative Central European start-ups. EIT InnoEnergy, the European innovation engine for sustainable energy, has crowned Woola the winner of PowerUp! The start-up has been [...]

PowerUp! is the challenge for start-ups, scale-ups and SMEs from Central and Eastern Europe whose products in the fields of energy, smart technologies, mobility are solving today's problems with tomorrow's technology. Join our 100% virtual Country Finals! [...]

According to the Wind Europe study “Wind energy in Europe in 2019” it has been installed 15.4 GW (11.7 GW onshore and 3.6 GW offshore) of new wind power capacity in 2019. 13.2 GW of the new installations were in the EU-28. This is 27% higher than 2018 but 10% less [...]

Polskie LNG has signed a contract for the extension of the existing liquefied natural gas regasification installation with additional SCV (Submerged Combustion Vaporiser) regasifier. As a result, the current regasification capacity of the LNG Terminal will increase by [...]

PowerUp! is the challenge for start-ups, scale-ups and SMEs from Central and Eastern Europe whose products in the fields of energy, smart technologies, mobility are solving today's problems with tomorrow's technology. The challenge is big, but our goal is simple: to [...]

On Wednesday 11 December 2019 the Balticconnector gas pipeline between Estonia and Finland was officially launched. The construction work of the project was completed one month ahead of schedule. The commissioning of the pipeline allows the opening of the Finnish gas [...]

European Single Intraday Coupling (SIDC) Solution and Local Implementation Projects confirm the 2nd wave go-live date for November 2019. Seven countries: Bulgaria Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovenia will be coupled with the fourteen already [...]

Interconnections represent a crucial part of the infrastructure of a modern energy system. In order to achieve a fully functioning Energy Union the EU has to invest in cross-border projects. EU Member States voted on a European Commission proposal to grant financial [...]

The construction of the Polish section of the new cross-border gas pipeline connecting Poland and Slovakia, was launched on the 6th September 2019. The construction of the Slovak section started already in September 2018 and works are well progressing. The [...]

The first phase of the construction of a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminal on the island of Krk in Croatia is well under way. Currently held activities include: construction of the jetty and auxiliary systems, construction of the connecting high-pressure gas [...]

Less than one year after signing the letter of intent on the Three Seas Fund during Bucharest Summit in September 2018, the investment fund has been established. On May 29th – Polish development bank Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego (BGK) and Romanian development bank - [...]

Poland aims to develop the second LNG terminal on its Baltic coast. Polish secretary of state responsible for energy projects, Piotr Naimski, declared that Poland is planning to install a floating storage and regasification unit in Gdańsk capable of handling 4 billion [...]

PGE Baltica, a newly established company by PGE, CEEP member, will implement the offshore wind farm program, an important part of PGE’s development strategy. The first farm in the Baltic Sea should be commissioned by 2025. PGE Baltica will deal with the comprehensive [...]

Poland has received 50 deliveries of LNG cargos with a total volume of 5.7 bcm after regasification, since 2016. Overall, 37 cargoes arrived from Qatar as part of a long-term contract with Qatargas, 9 spot deliveries – from Norway, the USA and Qatar, and one delivery [...]

"We want to build the second branch of the Pomeranian Pipeline, because it will increase the reliability of deliveries carried out by PERN, but also strengthen their security on a regional scale", explained the Vice-President of PERN and Vice – Chairman of the Board [...]

LOTOS Exploration and Production Norge AS (“LOTOS Norge”), part of the Grupa LOTOS - a CEEP member, was offered two new exploration and production licences by the Norwegian authorities, on the January 16th. The new licences have proven hydrocarbon reserves located in [...]

European Union’s Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA), GAZ-SYSTEM S.A. and Eustream have signed the Grant Agreement for the construction works for the Poland-Slovakia Gas Interconnection - a new cross-border transmission pipeline, of which 59 km is located [...]

Regarding the proposed model of electricity market set forth in the package “Clean energy for all Europeans”, PSE is of the opinion that in order to maintain security and reliability of electricity supplies as well as to ensure effectiveness of electricity market, it [...]

PSE S.A. will start implementing the Electricity Balancing Market Management System (MMS) in Poland as from 2018, in partnership with ABB Sp. z o.o., the winner of the public tender, for 34.2 mln PLN (8 mln EUR). MMS system is an IT tool that will facilitate a [...]

Poland’s second largest oil refiner, Grupa LOTOS, has received on the 09th of November 2017, a crude oil shipment of 600,000 barrels of domestic sweet crude, equivalent to around 80,000 tonnes. The tanker “St. Hellen” left the Freeport of Texas on October 19th and [...]

The final phase of the Open Season 2017 procedure ended up with a positive result proving the demand from the market for capacity to be delivered by the Baltic Pipe Project. The participants have confirmed their interest shown in the first phase, by submitting binding [...]

The Phase I of the Open Season 2017 for the Baltic Pipe project revealed an existing interest in the realisation of the Baltic Pipe Project and confirmed sufficient demand for gas transportation from the North Sea through Denmark and the Baltic Sea to Poland. Based on [...]

Polish gas pipeline operator GAZ-SYSTEM signed an agreement with Croatian counterpart Plinacro to move forward towards achieving the North-South Gas Corridor, during the Three Seas Initiative Summit, early July. The two operators underlined their will to boost the [...]

One of the key challenges that today’s oil companies are facing is the question of adapting their operations to the requirements set by the EU regulations. Because of this, LOTOS Group, a leading refinery in Central-Eastern Europe, is continuing to implement further [...]

The New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (“NEDO”), Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE:6501/“Hitachi”), Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. (TSE:4217/“Hitachi Chemical”), Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (“SMBC”), Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne S.A. (“PSE”), [...]

Electricity distribution and sales volumes increased compared to the previous year Construction of new units at Opole and Turów is on schedule. Work at Opole is over 70% complete and nearly 18% at Turów PGE expects further efficiency improvements and higher [...]

EU countries agreed on European Commission proposal to invest 444 EUR million in 18 energy infrastructure projects, out of which ten are to be implemented in Central and Eastern Europe for a total amount of 263 EUR million. These projects, known as projects of common [...]

The record volumes of gas supplied via the OPAL and Nord Stream pipeline in recent weeks have been accompanied by controversy over the rules for utilisation of the OPAL pipeline’s capacity. There has long been uncertainty as to the actual content of the decision taken [...]