One of the world’s richest man, Russian oligarch Vladimir Potanin, pressed the symbolic button opening the fiber-optic line to one of Russia’s remotest corners.
Energy company Enel teams up with Siemens Gamesa in the planned 201 MW wind power project in the Kola Peninsula. The turbines could be produced in Russia.
The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy ETLA predicted three percent growth this year in the Finnish economy on Tuesday, in one of the most positive economic forecasts for the near future to be released.
The Russian-Finnish nuclear project at Pyhäjoki, northern Finland, will not get a building permit before 2019, according to the company’s new, revised estimate. The firm had just a few months ago said it expected the permit in 2018.
Finland’s energy market is poised to shift into a new gear next year. Renewable energy sources are expected to produce more of the country’s energy than fossil fuels, which include oil, coal, natural gas and peat.
State companies Statoil and Rosneft set up a joint venture for the development of the Severo-Komsomolskoye field in the far northern Yamal-Nenets region.
Failing to find oil at the Korpfjell prospect doesn’t make Norway’s oil major give up. We will come back next year, says Dan Tuppen, head of exploration for the Barents Sea.
Operator of the only cross-border flights in Northern Scandinavia got millions of euros in public support from regional authorities. Now, the route could come to an end.