In a joint statement on Thursday, the Ministry of Energy (EM) and the Regulatory Activities Supervisory Authority emphasized that, in order to ensure a secure supply for domestic consumers, it is advisable to rely as much as possible on energy sources available within the country's borders. The steady increase in the amount of energy produced […]
Hungary has particularly favorable conditions for the use of geothermal energy and is already among the European leaders in this field, the Ministry of Energy (EM) said in a statement on Tuesday. In the Jedlik Ányos Energy Program, the government is mobilizing resources that exceed previous expenditures several times over in order to make further […]
Last month, the total installed capacity of solar power plants in Hungary exceeded 8,000 megawatts; the rise of green energy also contributed to the import ratio of electricity consumption remaining below 20% in the first half of this year, according to a social media post by the Ministry of Energy (EM) quoted by MTI on […]
A new gas power plant is being built in Mátra as the Hungarian Energy and Public Utility Regulatory Authority (MEKH) has granted the installation permit for the planned combined cycle gas power plant unit in Visonta, the Ministry of Energy (EM) said in a post on its community page on Thursday. Once the last administrative […]
More pure electric cars than ever before were put into service in February: last month, 2,124 pure electric vehicles received green license plates in Hungary, breaking the all-time record for monthly registrations, which was held until now by March 2024 with 2,108 units, the Ministry of Energy said on Tuesday. According to the information, the […]
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 […]
The end of last year saw a strong rally in the spread of green motoring, with the number of pure electric vehicles in Hungary rising to over 70,000 last year, according to a post on the Ministry of Energy's (EM) said on its social media page on Monday. According to the ministry's statement, last December […]
According to the latest data from the Road Traffic Register, more than 68,000 purely electric vehicles have already received green plates in Hungary. Compared to the beginning of the decade, this means that almost nine times more of the most environmentally friendly vehicles are on Hungarian roads, the Ministry of Energy (EM) announced on its […]
The installed photovoltaic capacity in Hungary increased by more than 840 megawatts in the first five months of this year, and by the beginning of the summer the total number of solar power plants above 50 kilowatts (kW) exceeded 3,000 megawatts, the Ministry of Energy (EM) informed MTI in a statement on Saturday. Another sign […]
The peak of solar panel electricity production has been broken, with domestic solar power plants producing nearly 2,000 megawatts more than ever before on February 10, the Ministry of Energy told MTI on Tuesday. Weather-dependent renewables accounted for more than a third of total domestic electricity consumption on the record-breaking day, the statement said. The […]
