Started in 2015 and held every October since – until 2021. The Ukraine Gas Forum had to skip 2022 for obvious force majeure reasons, but it is back on track and is planned for October 25-26 2023 in hybrid mode – online and in-person at the Kyiv Intercontinental. The emphasis this year will be on…
DetailsThe NS2 project is at crossroads now that German energy regulator BNetzA has suspended the certification pending the re-registration of the company as a legal entity in Germany. The agency is conducting consultations with Poland and Ukraine on the pipeline’s effect on these countries in terms of their economies, on Germany’s and the EU’s security…
DetailsToday, utility transmission and distribution are experiencing a major shift towards digitality, automation, and enhanced collaboration, pushing boundaries towards advanced technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), and Extended Reality (XR). All these technologies provide innovative solutions to the utility sector, enhancing companies’ asset and operation efficiency, improving workforce experience, and uncovering…
DetailsToday, utility transmission and distribution are experiencing a major shift towards digitality, automation, and enhanced collaboration, pushing boundaries towards advanced technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), and Extended Reality (XR). All these technologies provide innovative solutions to the utility sector, enhancing companies’ asset and operation efficiency, improving workforce experience, and uncovering…
DetailsPublished on May 27, 2020 The draft “EU green recovery plan” proposes an audacious development of clean hydrogen as a mean of storage and transmission of energy. But what will be the CO2 impact, and what are the alternatives? Simplistically put, the European electrical system is characterized by 2 modes : – “Fossil mode” : renewables…
DetailsThe effect of the COVID-19 on electricity demand is not the most dramatic or newsworthy of the pandemic’s consequence, but electricity demand patterns have a lot to say about a country’s activity. France’s President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to curtail non-essential movements in the country as of Monday March 16th 2020 at 12:00 was a unique opportunity…
DetailsProtocol of the meetings of representatives of the European Union, Ukraine and the Russian Federation, as well as companies from these countries (LLC Gas Transportation Operator Systems of Ukraine, NAK Naftogaz of Ukraine, PJSC Gazprom) (December 19-20th, 2019, Berlin and Minsk) Representatives of the European Union, Ukraine and the Russian Federation (hereinafter referred to as…
DetailsMichael Grossmann, October 2019 In a Nash Equilibrium the successive actions of gamers can lead to a stable equilibrium where any additional action would leave each gamer individually only worse off. In the negotiations over the future of Russian gas transit through Ukraine, the gamers are Gazprom and the Ukrainian state. The European Commission is…
DetailsThis article was first published on Global Gas Perspectives on 30 January 2019. Adding up the awards, Naftogaz won a net award of $2.56bn. Unfortunately for Ukraine, this is not the end of the story for two reasons. Gazprom decided not to pay the award and contested the Tribunal’s award and on June 13, 2018,…
Details Go to websiteInitially published in Global Gas Perspectives on 1 February 2018 The Naftogaz vs. Gazprom arbitration processes are a high-stakes game by any standard, and particularly so for Ukraine. Michael Grossmann Overview of Stockholm arbitration process Traditionally, the price of Gazprom gas to Ukraine, and the tariff Ukraine charged for transit were linked de facto, so…
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