Citing data from state-owned transmission system operator Mavir, the ministry said that, including household solar panels, Hungary’s solar power output exceeded the 2030 target output of 6,000 MW as early as February this year, and was now approaching 6,800 MW.

By the end of August, there were 1,134 quarter hours in which solar power output exceeded last year’s high of 2,731 MW, the ministry said.

Meanwhile, Paks 2 Nuclear Power Plant 'Hits New Milestone'

Construction works on the Paks 2 project are about to intensify as the investment moves into a higher gear.

A new milestone has been reached with the completion of soil works under Block 5 of the Paks nuclear power plant, and similar works under Block 6 are under way, Péter Szijjártó, the minister of foreign affairs and trade said.

Countries that produce most of their energy requirements are generally regarded as “safe”, the minister said on Facebook, adding that Hungary was intent on speeding up construction of the plant’s two new blocks at Paks, Hungary’s only commercial nuclear power plant.

Szijjártó spoke by phone with Aleksey Likhacsov, chief executive of Rosatom, the general contractor for the construction of the additional two blocks at Paks, on Monday, and they reviewed key tasks for the next few weeks with a view to accelerating the project.

He said 24,000 piles have been drilled into the ground, one-third of the total, and more than 1,000 people are working at the site and this number would soon increase significantly.

Nézőpont Energy Survey: Most Hungarians 'Outraged' by Ukrainian Oil Transit Ban

Fully 69% “find it outrageous that Ukraine is seeking to restrict oil deliveries to Hungary and Slovakia,” according to respondents of a recent Nézőpont survey, while 77% said Brussels should mediate between the parties.

Fully 22% of respondents said that the Ukrainian restrictions were acceptable. Nézőpont said 47% of supporters of the opposition Democratic Coalition and Tisza Party criticised the Ukrainian move.

Concerning proposals under which the Hungarian government could restrict power supplies to Ukraine in response to the oil delivery restrictions, 47% of respondents said they would support such a move, while 42% said the opposite.

Nézőpont’s phone survey was carried out between July 29 and 31 with a sample of 1,000 adults.


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