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23 March 2023

Teresa Ribera, Vice-President of the Government of Spain, and Fatih Birol, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), announced today that they will host an international climate and energy summit in Madrid on 2 October 2023 focused on the urgency of accelerating the global clean energy transition.

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23 March 2023

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis floated a plan to export renewable electricity from his country, Bulgaria and Africa to Europe through new interconnections, with a focus on the Western Balkans.

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22 March 2023

Power production from renewable energy sources in Greece exceeded the 10GW-threshold in early 2023, the country’s Independent Power Transmission Operator (IPTO or ADMIE) announced on Wednesday.

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21 March 2023

15 March 2023, Med-TSO held the conference “Integration of the Mediterranean Power Systems: a key driver for Energy Transition“, which marked the conclusion of its TEASIMED project – short for “Towards an Efficient, Adequate, Sustainable and Interconnected MEDiterranean power system“.

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21 March 2023

Garnering a potential of $1 billion worth of investments, Egypt has become the 32nd member and the first sovereign shareholder in North Africa for the Africa Finance Corporation(AFC), according to a statement released on March 7.

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20 March 2023

Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Tarek el-Molla on Monday met with a delegation from the Athens-based American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce in for energy co-operation.

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20 March 2023

Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Tarek El Molla met a Greek economic delegation from the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce (AmCham Greece), chaired by its President Nikolaos Bakatselos, during which El Molla affirmed the importance of enhancing mutual cooperation in energy.

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11 March 2023

From Israel there is full collaboration with the Italian government’s ambition to make the peninsula a energy hub in the Mediterranean for Europe. Israeli Prime Minister visits Rome Benjamin Netanhyau he promised investments in energy infrastructure in the Mare Nostrum.

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9 March 2023

Portugal’s environment and climate action minister said on Wednesday that the country’s energy sector should expect to see “at least $63bn [€60bn]” of investment by 2030.

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6 March 2023

MILAN, MARCH 06 – The European Investment Bank, Crédit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank – Milan branch, Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking and Reden have entered into a project finance operation worth 264 million euros for finance one of the largest photovoltaic portfolios in Italy.

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3 March 2023

NAPLES, MARCH 3 - RES4Africa has successfully completed the first part of the project 'Grids & Storage Lab training', which vies to train technicians in Morocco to promote renewable energy sources to contribute to electricity production in the country.

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1 March 2023

Jordan has launched an energy efficiency programme for the industrial sector ‘Kafa'a’, the country’s Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources announced.

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15 September 2022

RABAT, Sept 15 (KUNA) -- Morocco is seeking various means to increase its renewable energy resources, launching projects harnessing solar, wind, and hydropower energies to produce clean power.

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15 September 2022

France’s large nuclear power industry means it is far less reliant on Russian fossil fuels than its European neighbours. So why is it so worried about power shortages this winter?

Russia's decision to slash gas exports to Europe in response to sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine threatens to make for a colder than average winter.

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14 September 2022

France will cap power and gas price increases for households at 15 percent next year, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said on Wednesday, to ease the pain of Europe's worst energy crisis in decades on consumers.

The caps will cost the state €16 billion ($16 billion) and prevent household bills from more than doubling. The state will also persist with grants for the poorest, with a cheque of up to €200 for 12 million households.

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14 September 2022

LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal is already transferring hundreds of millions of euros of excess profits made by electricity and gas companies from spiralling energy prices to consumers and sees no immediate need for a windfall tax, its finance minister said on Wednesday.

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14 September 2022

Greece’s timely efforts to diversify its energy mix is making it an important country in Europe’s efforts to wean off Russian fossil fuels, US Ambassador to Greece, George Tsunis, told state-run news agency AMNA in an interview published Wednesday.

“Greece will be the solution to help Europe overcome this energy crisis. And this will be very important for the economy of Greece and it will also be very important for its geostrategic importance,” Tsunis said and referred to Greece as the “most important and reliable partner for solving the challenges of the region.”

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13 September 2022

The solar panel projects launched in the past two years are not all up to standard. What are the long-term consequences?

Faced with simultaneous energy, economic and financial crises, and with little to no provision of state electricity, many people in Lebanon are rushing to install solar panels.

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13 September 2022

The European Commission has approved €19.8 million (US$20.1 million) in state aid from the government of Croatia to energy storage operator IE-Energy for a series of grid-connected projects.

The aid will be a direct grant to IE-Energy and will cover approximately 30% of capital expenditures for a series of grid-scale battery energy storage systems.

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13 September 2022

Jerusalem (Israel), September 13: The Israeli government planned to earmark 98 million new shekels (about 29.1 million U.S. dollars) for a new subsidy program this year to boost energy efficiency in industry and public areas.

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12 September 2022

More than half of the electricity generated in Portugal this year came from renewable energies, with only Norway, Austria and Denmark producing more.

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10 September 2022

The Energy Forum of the countries of Southeast Europe gathered in Thessaloniki the Ministers of Energy of the countries of the region, as well as the ambassadors of the United States of America in the Balkans. The situation that the whole world is facing today, as far as energy is concerned, has placed this sector at the center of discussions.

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10 September 2022

ROME – Italy has collected only around 2 billion euros ($2 billion) from a contested windfall tax on energy companies, leaving the Treasury facing a potential multi-billion revenue shortfall, two government sources told Reuters on Friday.

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27 July 2022

The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman met with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis at Maximos Mansion on Tuesday evening, ahead of signing crucial bilateral agreements on Wednesday.
“We are also interested in hydrogen and how to turn Greece into a hub for Europe in terms of hydrogen, which is something that will change the parameters for both countries,” said the Crown Prince.

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27 July 2022

Athens, Jul 27, 2022, SPA -- As part of the framework of the official visit of His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, Crown Prince and Deputy Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the Hellenic Republic (Greece), Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, Minister of Energy, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Republic Nikos Dendias signed a memorandum of understanding for cooperation in several areas related to the energy sector.