The load on the Hungarian electricity system rose to its highest level so far this summer on Monday as cooling demand surged due to the heatwave, the financial portal portfolio.hu reported. The system load, which indicates the instantaneous national electricity consumption, peaked at 6,264 MW around 20:30 on Monday the 21st, according to verified gross […]
Hungarian citizens and companies have started to save a lot of energy. In December 2022, for example, Hungary consumed almost 24% less natural gas than a year earlier. And the weather is also helping. Around a quarter less gas was used in Hungary in December than a year earlier, according to the Ministry of Energy. […]
The renewal of the electricity network is continuing in the framework of the Danube InGrid project, a Hungarian-Slovak cooperation, with priority developments in Budapest and Pest County, as well as in the North-Eastern Hungary region, in the second phase of the program, which is now starting. Speaking at Thursday's public online consultation on the program, […]
Gross system load and annual gross electricity consumption peaked last year, and solar power generation also exceeded previous records, according to a summary published on the website of Mavir Hungarian Independent Transmission Operator Company Ltd. on Wednesday. According to the data, the record for electricity consumption in Hungary was broken on December 9 last year, […]
Hungary's electricity consumption record has been broken due to the sharp cooling of the weather that began on Thursday, the Hungarian Independent Transmission Operator Company Ltd. (Mavir) informed the state news agency MTI on Friday. According to verified data, the national system load reached 7,119 megawatts on Thursday between 5:45 p.m. and 6 p.m., a […]
Audi Hungaria has Europe's largest building-based photovoltaic system installed on the top of its two logistics centres. With the green electricity being produced here from renewable sources, the CO2 emission is estimated to be reduced by almost 4,900 tons. As a result of the joint project of Audi Hungaria and E.ON, the solar power system, […]
The European Commission will finance the 'Danube Ingrid', a smart electricity grid project in Hungary and the Slovak Republic, in the amount of EUR 102 million. This project will improve network management and increase the quality and security of supply for all market participants in the two countries. It will also support the efficient integration […]
A solar park by the Astrasun Group with a capacity of about one and a half megawatts, built with an investment of HUF 600 million in Csurgó, SW Hungary was handed over this Friday, October 2. The investment project took place in a recultivated landfill in an area unsuitable for agricultural cultivation. The park is […]
In the period since the start of production in 1982 until this Tuesday, May 19, the Paks Nuclear Power Plant has generated a total of 500 terawatt hours, or more than 500 billion kilowatt hours of electricity. Such an amount of electricity would be able to supply the entire world with electricity for a full […]
