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Poland will not apply taxes on shale gas production by 2020
After several foreign companies, as Exxon Mobil, Canada’s Talisman Energy and US oil firm Marathon, quit the Polish market in the past few months, the finance minister, Jacek Rostowski, has announced that Poland will not tax shale gas production until 2020 and will improve regulation, in a move which aims to attract energy explorers.
read more... 02/08/2013
British Gas to offer “free electricity” on Saturdays to its customers
Energy firm British Gas is considering offering customers “free electricity” on Saturdays, encouraging in such a way more power use at weekends when industrial energy demand is much lower.
read more... 02/08/2013
Enel Green Power profits up by over 20% in the first semester
Italy's biggest renewable energy company Enel Green Power (EGP), controlled by Italian utility Enel, has announced yesterday that in the first six month of 2013 its earnings increased by 21.7% to 269 million euros in comparison to 221 million euros in the same period of 2012.
read more... 01/08/2013
China has started importing gas from Myanmar
The China-Myanmar pipeline has started delivering natural gas to China, aiming to reduce the country’s reliance on shipping through the Strait of Malacca and will help to diversify its energy imports.
read more... 01/08/2013
Key facts on Spain’s energy market deficit
Following are key facts about Spain's energy market and a list of measures devised by the government and approved by royal decree on July 12 to overcome a growing gap between regulated energy prices and costs called the "tariff deficit".
read more... 01/08/2013