‘Private players being shut out of gas market’
Greek firm Energean on Thursday complained that private players are being shut out of the natural gas market in Cyprus, to the detriment of competition...
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RES rates paid to producers of electricity ‘biggest scandal of our time’
State-aid Commissioner Theophanis Theophanous on Thursday dubbed the “biggest scandal of our time” an affair relating to the rates paid to producers of electricity from renewable...
President calls for regional cooperation on energy, climate and security
Regional instability in the region is one of the biggest setbacks to investment in the Eastern Mediterranean, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Monday. Regional cooperation...
Falling short of energy expectations
Importing LNG was never going to be enough to meet climate targets By Charles Ellinas NOVEMBER 1 marked the start of public consultation for the...
Our View: Defa should ignore the auditor-general on LNG tender
OUR EFFORTS to import natural gas can only be described as a running joke. They started some 14 years ago when interest was expressed to...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Last chance to take the taxpayer’s money
TO SAY the Estia Scheme, which rewards people for not repaying their housing loans, has not gone according to plan, would be something of an...
Challenges to Israel’s gas exports
By Charles Ellinas Since discovery of natural gas in its exclusive economic zone Israel has been dreaming of exports, riches and political influence. Massive political...
€1.1m in scholarships offered in energy studies
THE ministry of energy, commerce and industry announced on Friday it is offering a total of €1.1m for scholarships for undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, including...
President ready to talk without preconditions, says spokesman
President Nicos Anastasiades is ready to talk with Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci without setting any preconditions, government spokesman Prodromos Prodromou said on Wednesday. Speaking...
Cyprus sends letter to UN Secretary General protesting Turkey’s provocations
The Republic of Cyprus’ Counsellor in New York Polly Ioannou has sent a letter to UN Secretary General António Guterres protesting Turkey’s continuing provocative and...
Education ministry signs deal with OEV for energy efficiency in schools
The education ministry signed an agreement on Monday with the Employers and Industrialists Federation (OEV) on the promotion of educational programmes on energy and the...
Ankara presses Turkish Cypriots’ resources claim after Cyprus agrees gas deal
By Ali Kucukgocmen and Michele Kambas Turkey said on Friday that Turkish Cypriots had rights to a share of the island’s offshore resources, days after...
Cyprus reaches deal with Noble on modifying gas contract – reports
The government is said to have clinched a deal with the Aphrodite gas field stakeholders to modify the production sharing contract, with energy minister Giorgos...
We must have no illusions about Turkey’s goals in the East Med
Turkey’s top priority is to consolidate its presence and its claims in the East Med, and it is doing so methodically under a plan By...
US strongly discourages any activity that could escalate tensions
Assistant Secretary for the bureau of energy resources in the US Department of State Francis Fannon has said that the US was strongly discouraging any...
East Med Gas Forum ‘evolving into international organisation’
The East Med Gas Forum (EMGF) will be meeting again in June with the purpose of evolving into an international organisation, energy minister Giorgos Lakkotrypis...
No country is excluded from regional cooperation, Christodoulides says
The establishment of a regional organisation for security and cooperation in the Middle East is the further step that needs to be taken in the...
Optimism over natural gas findings
There was optimism on Thursday over the results of an exploratory drill in an offshore field in the island’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ), which will...
EastMed could be ‘one of the greatest underwater projects’ in the world
The EastMed pipeline could be “one of the greatest underwater projects in the world”, Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin said on Tuesday. Rivlin, who was speaking...
Energy from renewables less than 10% at end 2017, some 3% from 2020 target
The share of energy from renewable sources (expressed in per cent of gross final energy consumption) reached 9.9 per cent in 2017 in Cyprus, according...
