NUCLEAR POWER: TO INCREASE THREEFOLD
ГАЗПРОМ - 1 октября 2021 - За январь-сентябрь 2021 года «Газпром», по предварительным данным, добыл 378,1 млрд куб. м газа. Это на 17,3% (на 55,7 млрд куб. м) больше, чем в прошлом году.
Поставки из газотранспортной системы на внутренний рынок компания нарастила на 15,9% (на 23,9 млрд куб. м).
Экспорт в страны дальнего зарубежья «Газпром» увеличил до 145,8 млрд куб. м — это второй по величине показатель для 9 месяцев за всю историю поставок (в 2018 году — 149,2 млрд куб. м). Рост, по сравнению с январем-сентябрем 2020 года, — на 15,3% или на 19,3 млрд куб. м.
В частности, компания нарастила поставки газа в Турцию (на 138,3%), Германию (на 33,2%), Италию (на 14,2%), Румынию (на 305,6%), Сербию (на 125,2%), Польшу (на 11,2%), Болгарию (на 52,5%), Грецию (на 10,8%), Финляндию (на 17,5%).
Поставки газа в Китай по газопроводу «Сила Сибири» после завершения плановых работ, проводившихся с 22 по 29 сентября, продолжают увеличиваться.
Запасы газа в европейских подземных хранилищах на 29 сентября остаются, по данным Gas Infrastructure Europe, на минимальном за многие годы уровне. Отставание по заполненности по сравнению с прошлым годом — 20,5 млрд куб. м газа.
При сохранении среднесуточных сентябрьских темпов закачки к 12 октября (в этот день в 2020 году начался отбор) в хранилищах будет около 76 млрд куб. м газа. Таким образом, останутся не восполненными 28% или 18,6 млрд куб. м газа из 66,2 млрд куб. м, отобранных из европейских ПХГ за прошлый отопительный сезон.
В украинских ПХГ на 29 сентября отставание по объему запасов от прошлого года — 32,6% или 9,1 млрд куб. м газа.
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NUCLEAR POWER: TO INCREASE THREEFOLD
N - 4 October 2021 - Fatih Birol, head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) told the US-sponsored Partnership for Transatlantic Energy and Climate Cooperation’s (P-TECC’s) third ministerial conference in Warsaw, that nuclear power is important to support an emerging new global clean energy economy. However, global reactor capacity would need to increase threefold by 2050 to meet global net-zero emission targets.
This would require the construction of 30GW of new nuclear power capacity every year. While renewables comprised more than 90% of new installed power capacity globally over the last two years, the integration of intermittent generation poses some problems.
Birol said the share of nuclear power generation in Europe could fall from about 20% to about 5% without policy changes. He said: “If nuclear goes down, how are we in Europe going to balance the markets, secure electricity, and keep energy prices at affordable levels?”
Nuclear’s long construction times and high upfront capital costs are obstacles to capacity expansion, but more industrial and regulatory standardisation could help improve conditions, he added. Birol also said IEA is optimistic about small modular reactors, which could be cheaper and faster to build, and could be flexibly used to provide industrial heat and help produce hydrogen.
He also advocated long-term operation of existing nuclear reactor units through lifetime extensions as one of the cheapest way to cut down on CO2 emissions.
The US Department of Energy’s Office of International Affairs coordinates P-TECC, which it describes as “an international platform designed to provide policymakers and civil-society stakeholders within Eastern and Central Europe with the resources and technical tools to build secure, resilient, climate-conscious energy systems”.
Countries and organisations participating in P-TECC include: Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, the European Union, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, and the USA.
P-TECC projects include:
- Creating a winter action plan for Moldova to help the country diversify its supplies and reduce its needs for Russian natural gas during its most vulnerable season.
- Cybersecurity workshops conducted with Croatia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland, focusing on enhancing the ability of energy sector operators to prepare for a cyberattack on equipment.
- Electric grid vulnerability assessment for Montenegro as part of a larger aim at energy resilience technical support.
DOE says the Office of International Affairs supports priorities of the Secretary of Energy and DOE. “It focuses on enhancing global energy security through countering malign influence, diversifying supplies, and increasing energy access. At the same time the office is committed to increasing US energy exports and trade to enhance growth.”
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