Energy policy

Turkey will send 80 more students to Russia to get nuclear energy education in addition to the 300 students who have already been to Russia for the same purposes, Energy Minister Taner Y?ld?z said Feb. 9.

Negotiations with Russia over a discount in the price of natural gas via a new gas pipeline to Turkey "look promising," Turkish Energy Minister Taner Y?ld?z said late on Jan. 27.

Y?ld?z told private broadcaster NTV that two previous meetings were "not successful," but ongoing talks with Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller were more promising.

The sixth World Forum on Energy Regulation will gather energy regulators from all around the world in Istanbul later this year, Alberto Pototschnig, director of the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators, said Jan. 28.

There has been a rapid increase in Turkey?s energy consumption, and the country needs to invest around $120 billion in energy projects by 2023, President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an said on Jan. 20.

Russian energy giant Gazprom has urged the European Union to link up to its planned energy pipeline to Turkey or lose the gas that now transits Ukraine.

Hungary wants talks with Serbia about new pipeline

BUDAPEST, BELGRADE -- Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto expects "intensifying talks with Turkey, Greece, Macedonia and Serbia about a potential new pipeline."

The pipeline "could follow that route to central Europe," Reuters reported.

Minister presents new energy law draft to assembly

BELGRADE -- Serbia's new energy law will "hrow the door open wide to investors to put money in the energy sector in Serbia," Aleksandar Antic said in the parliament Friday.

BELGRADE - The energy bill the parliament will discuss on Friday should bring Serbia's regulations in that field in line with EU legislation.

The new bill is proposed in order to harmonise Serbian legislation with that of the EU in a comprehensive and efficient way and solve problems noticed in practice, according to the argumentation for the bill.

Turkey is about to make new deals with new companies, which will be of great importance to Iraqi oil, Energy Minister Taner Yıldız said at the launch meeting of the World Energy Outlook 2014 report of the International Energy Agency (IEA) yesterday, as reported by Anadolu Agency.

Russian Energy Minister Aleksandr Novak considers Turkey to be a reliable partner for the delivery of Russian natural gas to Europe, he said in a live TV interview Dec. 22.

“We have recently had very good relations with our Turkish partners, especially in the field of energy,” Novak told Russian news channel Rossiya 24 in an interview.