More than 300,000 solar power plants, including industrial ones, are already in operation in Hungary, and by spring the household solar systems alone will reach this milestone, the Ministry of Energy announced on Monday. According to preliminary data from the Hungarian Energy and Public Utility Regulatory Authority (MAVIR), the total installed capacity of domestic solar […]

Total domestic solar capacity topped 5,400 megawatts by the beginning of October, according to latest data summary by MAVIR Hungarian Transmission Operator Co., with the first three quarters adding 1,389 megawatts, more than 300 megawatts more than the gain in twelve months of last year's record year, the Energy Ministry (EM) said on Friday. The […]

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 […]

Domestic electricity consumption rose this week to the highest level of the summer as a result of the heatwave, but the current levels are significantly lower than in previous years, the financial news website portfolio.hu reports. The peak could be broken again in the first half of next week with the arrival of another heatwave. […]

Sunny spring weather has led to new records in solar power generation in Hungary, the Hungarian Energy and Public Utility Regulatory Authority (MAVIR) has announced. First on Friday, March 17, in the midday hours, 2,343 MW, and then on Saturday, exceeding this with a preliminary value of 2,362 MW (in the quarter hour between 11:30 […]

Hungarian industrial solar power generation reached a new historic record on February 21, with 2,030.5 megawatts (MW) of energy produced by industrial-scale solar power plants at the midday peak, breaking the previous record of 1,953 MW set on February 10, the Hungarian Independent Transmission Operator Co. Ltd. (MAVIR) said on its website. According to the […]

Following a drone attack on their Ukrainian system control center in mid-October, Ukrainian transmission operators have requested assistance to restore their damaged IT infrastructure through ENTSO-E, the European network of system operators for telecommunications. “In immediate response to the request received at the end of October, we offered servers and data storage devices to Ukrenergo […]