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Balkan Gas Hub offers gas prices competitive to price of Russian gas

The day the Bulgarian Energy and Water Regulatory Commission approved a 42% decrease in the price of imported natural gas, price of gas on the Bulgarian gas exchange dropped to a record low. The Balkan Gas Hub which is an operator of an online gas trading platform announced that at the end of the trading session a deal was signed at EUR 12.5 per megawatt hour, which is 35% below the price of Russian gas. Balkan Gas Hub specifies that this price is extremely competitive, because it includes the access and transmission costs as well. Contracts for a total of 214,800 megawatts were signed during the day at an average price which was 5% lower than the regulated gas price.




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