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Last month, we threw away more than 18 gigawatt hours of solar power – enough to power the average Cypriot household for nearly 2,000 years. This process, referred to as ‘curtailment’, is where ...

Energy was constantly in the news in 2024, but serious progress was limited. By far the biggest success was the ‘Photovoltaics (PV) for All’ scheme. With the failure of utility-scale renewables (...

News-wise, the Great Sea Interconnector had had quite the week: first the leaking of two reports casting major doubts over the endeavour, followed almost instantaneously by the revelation that a ...

The Cypriot government is “ready” to begin consultations with both Greece’s independent transmission system operator Admie and the country’s energy ministry to find an agreement on “all matters” ...

The floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) Prometheus departed from Shanghai in the early hours of Saturday morning, the government confirmed. This marks the beginning “of a new era for ...

All necessary measures to ensure the safety of Vasiliko energy centre are being promoted, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said on Tuesday. Addressing an event to mark the 10th anniversary of ...

At least 1,650 applicants will share the €30 million allocated through the government’s energy and housing policy, which opened on November 21 and will run till January 1, 2025, or until the budget runs ...

Cyprus will begin accepting applications from commercial producers to construct energy storage facilities on the island in January, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said on Friday. Addressing the Energy symposium in ...

“Energy giants from Gulf states” are interested in possibly drilling for natural gas in Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), President Nikos Christodoulides said on Friday. Addressing the Energy symposium in ...

The International Energy Agency (IEA) published its annual World Energy Outlook (WEO-2024) on October 16, warning that the world is failing to limit global warming to 1.5C. What is new this ...

It has been over two-and-a-half years since ExxonMobil last drilled in Cyprus’ EEZ, but the company is about to come back. In an interview earlier this month the minister of ...

Cyprus’ first natural gas extraction will most likely be from the Kronos reservoir in block 6, which may be in 2027, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said in an interview to Kathimerini published ...

The north’s electricity authority Kib-Tek has the right to cancel its 15-year procurement contract with Turkish energy company Aksa over contract breaches with regard to the planned subsea electricity ...

Good news on the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) front, but priority must now shift to implementing measures that will bring electricity prices down between now and 2030, when the GSI is ...

The project for importing LNG to Cyprus must be completed as soon as possible, as every delay costs the Cypriot economy and the consumer huge sums of money, President of ...

Turkey’s Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz on Friday promised to “ensure the sustainability of the energy supply” in the north. Speaking during a visit to the north, he said Turkey ...

The chairman of the parliamentary energy committee has fired a volley of tough questions at the energy minister over the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) in his persistent effort to pin ...

Officials of the United Arab Emirates Oil Company (Adnoc) and the British multinational BP will meet Energy Minister George Papanastasiou on Friday. According to the Cyprus News Agency the meeting ...

The EAC is moving forward with securing large plots of state land for building more photovoltaic (PV) parks, Electricity Authority director George Petrou said on Monday. “People have come forward ...

During the last two months two major reports were released reviewing world energy. First was the Energy Institute’s (EI) ‘Statistical review of world energy 2024’ published in June, followed by ...

The Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) must “change” to become a competitive organisation by the time the electricity market opens up, the energy minister said on Tuesday. “Our vision is ...

Europe and the European Commission (EC) consider electricity grid interconnections between member states as strategically important, contributing to Europe’s energy security. They offer economic efficiency, provide reliability to the ...

Global companies such as Tesla and Samsung have shown interest in participating in Cyprus’ battery-based electricity storage system, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said on Tuesday. In a presentation on the ...

Progress towards implementing the liquefied natural gas terminal at Vasiliko will be on the House energy committee’s agenda on Tuesday when it reconvenes following the elections. Energy Minister George ...