Fuels

Investments in biogas are not profitable in Romania at a 4 million euro cost per MW installed, Deputy Rodin Traicu, member of the committee on industries and services, said on Thursday.

Deputy Rodin Traicu, member of the Committee on industries and services

The owner of a gas station in the town of Edipsos on Evia on Tuesday confirmed reports regarding two incidents involving Parliament Speaker Zoe Constantopoulou over the Greek Orthodox Easter weekend.

According to reports in local media, Constantopoulou visited the gas station on Sunday and demanded that one of her vehicle?s tires be replaced.

Police released on Saturday the name and photographs of the young woman who allegedly aided November 17 terrorist Christodoulos Xeros before he was recaptured earlier this month.

The woman was identified as 22-year-old Angeliki Spyropoulou.

Police published 33 photos of the suspect, one from her identity card and the rest from CCTV cameras.

The results of two-week state inspection of gas quality on Croatian gas stations have revealed that 10 per cent of the analyzed fuel was not up to standards and could potentially cause vehicles to malfunction.

Low-quality fuel was on sale at gas stations in the capital, Zagreb, but also in the cities of Split, Osijek and Varazdin.

Turkey is bracing for more government-backed pillaging of the natural environment for fossil fuels and cement, with a new coal plant project in the western Black Sea province of Bartın expected to lead to the destruction of a huge 183,000-hectare forested area.

The Turkish government plans to double its electricity production with coal power in 2018, which will include a policy that will increase the country’s coal production.

Turkey produced 32 billion kwH of electricity with coal power plants in 2013 and plans to increase this amount to 57 billion kwh in 2018, as part of its new economy plans.

The same reply comes whenever we ask why we need so many coal mines, so many hydroelectric power plants (HES) and so many thermic power plants: “We need a lot of energy.”

An inspection of Bulgaria's State Agency for Metrology and Technical Supervision has revealed fuel quality irregularities at 43% of the filling stations.

By Chryssa Liaggou

The sale of heating oil for this winter will begin on Wednesday under particularly favorable conditions thanks to the rapid decline of international oil rates.

Macedonia's population of 2.1 million people collectively lost 234 years of life in 2012 owing to pollution from coal, a study by several environmental NGOs and the University of Stuttgart claims.