#electricity

Household electricity prices in Cyprus fell to €0.26 per kilowatt-hour in the first half of 2026, according to Eurostat data, easing from their energy-crisis peak but remaining significantly above pre-crisis levels as ...

Children’s rights commissioner Elena Pericleous on Monday warned against the use of children as political props, after member of the European Parliament Fidias Panayiotou had a day earlier published ...

The lack of visible benefits from Cyprus’ Competitive Electricity Market has reopened debate over the single buyer model. Under a conventional single-buyer arrangement, one body purchases electricity through tenders or ...

Cyprus’ competitive electricity market completes its first year of operation on October 1. Technically, it is functioning. Electricity is traded through day-ahead, intraday, forward and balancing arrangements broadly aligned with EU’...

Areas of Nicosia and Larnaca were left without electricity on Thursday after cables were severed in separate incidents the electricity authority (EAC) confirmed. Crews from the authority were dispatched to ...

A planned undersea electricity interconnection cable linking Cyprus and Lebanon is “not possible without Turkey’s permission”, Turkish Cypriot ‘energy minister’ Hasan Tacoy said on Wednesday. “If there are plans ...

A planned undersea electrical interconnection cable linking Cyprus and Lebanon would allow the island to send energy there that it generates through renewable sources, which at present goes to waste, ...

The Employers and Industrialists Federation (Oev) and the Cyprus Energy Regulatory Authority (CERA) have discussed measures to improve the electricity market and gradually reduce energy costs, Oev said on Wednesday. ...

A navtex, a message used to transmit information to seaborne vessels, will be issued “in the coming days” to warn sailors of plans to conduct seabed surveys for the laying ...

House president Annita Demetriou on Wednesday called on the government to abandon its current policy of “ambivalence, doublespeak, and inertia” over the Great Sea Interconnector, stressing that the project is ...

The debate over Cyprus’ high electricity prices has increasingly focused on renewable energy producers and, in particular, whether commercial solar parks are earning excessive returns. This is a legitimate question ...

Dr Andreas Procopiou In Cyprus’ public debate on energy, the lack of well documented information is widespread. Here we always back our claims with official data, because energy literacy is ...

The Electricity Authority (EAC) on Thursday hit back at reports that it’s blocking the operation of a key infrastructure of a private power station located near its own Vasiliko ...

Permission from Turkey is not required for the Great Sea Interconnector project (GSI), which, if completed, will connect the energy grids of Cyprus, Greece and Israel, to go ahead, Greek ...

The transmission system operator (TSO) is on Monday evening providing electricity to the Turkish Cypriot community, assistant operations director Harry Zavallis said, with faults experienced over the weekend continuing to ...

Power cuts in “various areas” of Cyprus experienced on Saturday morning was caused by a fault in the north, the transmission system operator said. It said the fault had occurred ...

The technical problem which caused power cuts in various areas across the island on Friday morning has “not yet been solved”, transmission system operator spokeswoman Chara Kousiappa said, though the ...

Electricity demand is being fully met and has begun to decline in recent days as temperatures ease, according to the Cyprus Transmission System Operator (TSO). Assistant director of the TSO’...

The Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) has entered a new phase. The recent decision by French infrastructure investor Meridiam to become the project’s 66 per cent majority shareholder has renewed confidence ...

Reducing electricity prices remains the government’s top priority, according to President Nikos Christodoulides, who also said he will decide in 2027 whether to seek a second term, dismissing suggestions that ...

Cyprus could lose up to half of its conventional electricity generation capacity by 2030 unless critical energy projects are completed, officials and industry representatives warned the House energy committee on Friday. ...

Delegations from the transmission system operator and the energy markets association discussed efforts to reduce electricity costs for households and businesses, and ways to make the new competitive energy market ...

Electricity storage batteries are expected to arrive in Cyprus in January 2027, with installations due to be completed before the summer, Energy Minister Michael Damianos said on Sunday. Damianos said contracts ...

Every year, at the height of the summer, we face the same problem. The Electricity Authority’s power stations had great difficulty producing enough power to satisfy demand. The antiquated ...