Bulgarian Energy Ministry

Greece and Bulgaria have agreed to work on the updated schedule of the Interconnector Greece-Bulgaria (IGB), which envisages transportation of Azerbaijani gas, Trend reports.

A debt settlement deal was signed by Bulgaria's state-owned National Electric Company, or NEC, and the Russian nuclear producer Atomstroyexport on Wednesday, the Bulgarian Energy Ministry announced.

An arbitration court in Geneva ordered the NEC to pay the Russian firm 601,617,133 euros for the production of two nuclear reactors for the cancelled Belene power plant.

Azerbaijan with supply Bulgaria with gas that will be destined for the "Balkan Gas Hub", according to the Bulgarian Energy Ministry.

The decision was taken at the 4th intergovernmental committee in Baku, where 2020 was confirmed as a beginning.

A protocol that will pave the way for a study into gas deliveries options to third countries was also signed at the meeting.

Iranian and Bulgarian officials discussed opportunities for gas supplies from the Islamic Republic, at an intergovernmental meeting in Tehran on Wednesday.

Bulgaria's Deputy Energy Minister Zhecho Stankov made his Iranian counterpart, Houshand Fallahtian, familiar with the Balkan gas hub project the government is willing to launch at the Black Sea.

The construction of the Bulgaria-Serbia gas grid interconnector will boost the energy security of both countries and of the region as a whole, according to Bulgaria's Deputy Energy Minister Nikolay Nikolov.

Nikolov met with Miryana Filipovic, Mirjana Filipovi?, State Secretary of Ministry of Mining and Energy in Belgrade.

A US delegation has arrived at the Bulgarian Energy Ministry for negotiations, the ministry has confirmed.

The "working visit", which will not be followed by a joint conference, comes just a day after Prime Minister Boyko Borisov put into question a joint project with US-based Westinghouse Electric Company.

Bulgarian Parliament overturned its former decision Thursday for preferential pricing of renewable energy installations across the country.

Close to 400 protesters from the Sofia village of Lozen gathered on Sunday to express their dissatisfaction with the services of CEZ electricity distribution company. 

They attempted to block the southern wing of the Sofia inter-city road. Several people even tried to block the way to Trakiya motorway, but police forces stopped them.