#cyprus energy

Natural gas public company (Defa) chairman George Pistentis on Wednesday promised that issues which arose in the past related to efforts to build a natural gas liquefaction terminal in Vasiliko ...

Greece has requested permission for a French-flagged vessel to conduct seabed surveys in its territorial waters, in an effort to resume work on the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) electricity cable. ...

The Great Sea Interconnector project is “no longer merely a Greek and Cypriot project” but a “European project”, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Friday, of the cable which, ...

Damianos highlights Cyprus’ gas potential at Athens energy conference Cyprus Energy Minister Michael Damianos has called for closer regional energy cooperation and greater use of existing infrastructure to develop Eastern ...

Economic success creates a new question for Cyprus. Having repaired the state’s balance sheet, is the island using its financial strength sufficiently to repair structural weaknesses in its economy? ...

The interests and objectives of the United States and Cyprus are closely aligned, US ambassador John Breslow said on Wednesday, describing the current period as potentially the best in the ...

The government has activated a special clause allowing for emergency measures to be taken so that electricity supply can meet demand, as by 2030 Cyprus may face a severe supply gap, ...

The lack of visible benefits from Cyprus’ Competitive Electricity Market has reopened debate over the single buyer model. Under a conventional single-buyer arrangement, one body purchases electricity through tenders or ...

Cyprus’ competitive electricity market completes its first year of operation on October 1. Technically, it is functioning. Electricity is traded through day-ahead, intraday, forward and balancing arrangements broadly aligned with EU’...

Cyprus, Greece and Egypt have agreed to strengthen joint protection of gas fields, supply lines and offshore energy infrastructure in the Eastern Mediterranean, amid heightened security concerns across the region. ...

The return of acute geopolitical risk to global energy markets is changing the way energy security is understood. The central question is no longer simply how to deliver energy as ...

Cyprus ranked fourth from last in the European Union for the share of electricity generated from renewable sources in the second quarter of 2026, according to a report from Eurostat. Only ...

The Employers and Industrialists Federation (Oev) and the Cyprus Energy Regulatory Authority (CERA) have discussed measures to improve the electricity market and gradually reduce energy costs, Oev said on Wednesday. ...

MPs on Tuesday demanded an explicit timetable for the completion of the stalled LNG import project at Vasiliko, while the state-run entity in charge of it gave interested companies one ...

The geopolitical contest for strategic primacy across the Levantine Basin has now converged upon the seabed, centred on the execution of the Great Sea Interconnector. Conceived as a 1,208-kilometre high-voltage ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Wednesday that Cyprus was closer than ever to seeing the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) project move towards implementation, following an agreement with Greece and the ...

House president Annita Demetriou on Wednesday called on the government to abandon its current policy of “ambivalence, doublespeak, and inertia” over the Great Sea Interconnector, stressing that the project is ...

Finance Minister Makis Keravnos dropped a bombshell on Tuesday, telling MPs that the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) could end up costing a great deal more than the €1.9 billion as advertised, ...

MEP Fidias Panayiotou’s initiative to reduce electricity prices by 20 per cent has sparked intense public debate. The government, professional bodies, and market stakeholders quickly disputed his calculations, particularly regarding ...

Work on the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) could resume by year’s end, the Greek foreign minister said on Monday reiterating that Greece would not ask Turkey’s “permission” to ...

The electricity authority plans to build new electricity storage capacity both at the Dhekelia power station and at the Moni power station, with the aim of limiting the extent to ...

As Cyprus enters the run up to the 2028 presidential election, energy is perhaps the biggest economic challenge the next administration will inherit. From electricity prices and energy security to natural ...

Assertions that photovoltaic/solar systems are loss-making are misleading and only serve to discourage investment in ‘clean energy’, the energy minister said in a letter made public on Monday. Michalis ...

‘I’m not against the project. I want it to make sense’ Amid the hype over the Great Sea Interconnector, following the entry of French asset management firm Meridiam, one ...