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Bulgarian Hotels Doing 'Fine' with Little Electricity
Hotel owners in Bulgarian resort Sunny Beach are doing their best to limit electricity consumption without that interfering with their guests.
According to the chair of the union of hotel owners in the southern Bulgarian Black Sea resort Elena Ivanova, one should not overestimate the significance of the recent power cuts and disturbances in the electricity supply in the region.
Ivanova said that the great number of beds and the hot weather are among the reasons for the failures of the electric...
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Date: 2010-08-15 09:29:20 | Source: Novinite.com
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Bulgarian Revenue Service Discovers Non-Profit Disco
The Bulgarian National Revenue Agency discovered a disco on the Southern Black Sea coast that had not registered any revenue.
The tax authorities were doing largescale checks on Bulgaria's major summer holiday region in a bid to up state revenue and to decrease tax evasion.
Apparently the unnamed disco had not declared a single lev in revenue.
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Date: 2010-08-15 08:08:53 | Source: Novinite.com
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EVN Restores Power Supply in Southern Bulgarian Resorts
As of 10 pm Saturday night, the Bulgarian power utility EVN has announced the restoration of the electricity supply for the region north of the Black Sea city of Burgas.
Earlier Saturday night the EVN cut the power as the Central Dispatcher Unit of the Electricity System Operator (ESO), a state company monitoring power supply, ordered the power cut effective as of 7 pm.
The privately-owned power utility has obeyed the order of the state company, and has focused its efforts on keeping the elect...
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Date: 2010-08-14 21:21:19 | Source: Novinite.com
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New Power Cut Hits Bulgaria's Southern Black Sea Coast
Bulgarian power utility EVN has announced restrictions of the electricity supply for the region north of the Black Sea city of Burgas.
EVN says that the Central Dispatcher Unit of the Electricity System Operator (ESO), a state company monitoring power supply, ordered the power cut effective as of 7 pm on Saturday.
The privately-owned power utility has obeyed the order of the state company, and has focused its efforts on keeping the electricity cut for the region of the largest Bulgarian Black ...
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Date: 2010-08-14 17:18:58 | Source: Novinite.com
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Voluntary Restrictions Supposed to Save Bulgarian Resorts from Power Outages
Bulgaria's National Electric Company NEK is relying on "voluntary restrictions" of electricity consumption in order to save some of the country's top Black Sea resorts from power outages and officially scheduled electricity supply cuts.
NEK declared Saturday afternoon that despite media reports no formal scheduled restrictions of electricity supply have been introduced along the southern Bulgarian Black Sea coast, including the Sunny Beach resort.
The region north of the city of Burgas has bee...
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Date: 2010-08-14 16:45:47 | Source: Novinite.com
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Bulgarian Agriculture Minister Assuages Grain Shortage Fears
Bulgaria has got plenty of good-quality wheat and is not threatened by a grain shortage, Agriculture Minister Miroslav Naydenov said Saturday.
In his words, 97% of the wheat crops have been harvested. He emphasized that there are no reasons for concern despite media reports, and that Bulgaria will have bread thoughout the year.
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Date: 2010-08-14 15:53:45 | Source: Novinite.com
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Top Bulgarian Sea Resorts May End Up without Power for Days
Failure to implement certain electricity supply restrictions might lead to a grid collapse that could leave Bulgaria's southern Black Sea coast without power for days, including the Sunny Beach resort.
This has been reported by the bTV channel citing dispatchers from the state Electricity System Operator (ESO), a government company in charge of the monitoring and control of power supply.
The ESO has stated that there are no formally introduced scheduled electricity supply restrictions as was i...
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Date: 2010-08-14 13:37:01 | Source: Novinite.com
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Bulgaria Narrows Trade Deficit in 2010 H1, Strong Export in July
A substantial growth of Bulgaria's export coupled with a modest rise of the import has helped the country narrow its foreign trade gap in the first half of 2010, preliminary data shows.
Bulgaria's total export in January-June 2010 amounted to BGN 13.315 B, while its import was BGN 16....
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Date: 2010-08-14 12:41:20 | Source: Novinite.com
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Bulgaria Narrows Trade Deficit in 2010 H1, Strong Exports in July
A substantial growth of Bulgaria's export coupled with a modest rise of the import has helped the country narrow its foreign trade gap in the first half of 2010, preliminary data shows.
Bulgaria's total export in January-June 2010 amounted to BGN 13.315 B, while its import was BGN 16....
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Date: 2010-08-14 12:41:20 | Source: Novinite.com
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Storks Said to Spoil Electricity Supply of Bulgarian Resorts
Different parts of Bulgaria's Southern Black Sea coast, including both resort complexes and residential quarters, had restricted electricity supply overnight.
This occurred after Friday night electricity supply restrictions in the Burgas region were introduced as a result of the constant power outages caused by the excessive consumption in the crowded resorts, especially Sunny Beach.
The electricity supply restrictions have not been formally announced but the EVN power utility has made it clea...
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Date: 2010-08-14 09:12:17 | Source: Novinite.com
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Bulgaria Introduces Electricity Restrictions in Top Black Sea Resorts
Some 300 000 tourists, mostly foreign, will be affected by electricity supply restrictions introduced Friday night along Bulgaria's Southern Black Sea coast.
After a number of recent power outages in the sea resorts around the city of Burgas, the EVN power utility has made it clear that the record consumption of electricity in the region has been pushing to its limits the local power grid.
The introduced electricity supply restrictions will provide for one hour without electricity for every fi...
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Date: 2010-08-13 17:51:42 | Source: Novinite.com
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Romania, Azerbaijan, Georgia Set for Natural Gas Summit
The presidents of Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Romania are going to meet in Baku in September as part of the three countries' joint natural gas supply project AGRI, whose realization also affects Bulgaria.
The three heads of state - Ilham Aliyev, Mikheil Saakashvili, and Traian Basescu - will come together in Baku on September 14, 2010, to discuss the progress of gas transportation project Azerbaijan-Georgia-Romania Interconnector (AGRI).
According to the Ministry of Industry & Energy of Azerbaija...
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Date: 2010-08-13 15:44:06 | Source: Novinite.com
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Bulgarian FinMin with New Stock Exchange Representative
Bulgaria's Financial Supervision Commission approved Friday Georgi Balgarski as a member of the Board of Directors of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE).
Balgarski was nominated on August 3 as the official representative of the Finance Ministry at BSE.
He replaces as State representative Lyudmila Elkova, who was the only person that kept her post at the Board of Directors after the January 20, 2010 reshuffle when all others were released.
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Date: 2010-08-13 14:50:37 | Source: Novinite.com
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Bulgaria Might Reexport Natural Gas from Azerbaijan
Bulgaria might reexport some its future supplies of natural gas from Azerbaijan to other European states.
This possibility was discussed by a Bulgarian-Azerbaijani working group which met in Baku over the week, announced Ivan Drenchovski, director of Bulgartransgaz, a subsidiary of the Bulgarian state-owned gas company Bulgargaz, as cited by the Standart Daily.
In his words, the Bulgarian government is working on the development of two transit routes of natural gas from Azerbaijan to Bulgaria ...
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Date: 2010-08-13 14:17:19 | Source: Novinite.com
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Bulgarian Revenue Agents Hit Black Sea Coast with Warning
The Bulgarian National Revenue Agency (NRA) is launching overnight mass tax probes on the entire Black Sea coast, the agency announced Friday.
Hundreds of tax agents, including some from inside the country, will monitor hotels, restaurants, night clubs, and shops for hidden revenues. They will be in the beach resorts of "Albena," "Golden Sands," "Sunny Beach," and "The Spirit of Burgas" festival....
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Date: 2010-08-13 13:58:19 | Source: Novinite.com
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Bulgarian Watchdog to Inspect by Surprise
The agents from the Bulgarian Commission for Protection of Consumers will implement new tactics during their checks at the Black Sea coast.
The head of the Commission, Damyan Lazarov, has announced that agents will start checking the quality of offered services in the Black Sea resorts on Monday.
"The new thing is that the inspectors will check different objects in one day - hotels, stores, restaurants....
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Date: 2010-08-13 13:54:49 | Source: Novinite.com
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