Nuclear profits sustain Bulgaria in gas crisis

[hunter]

1. Bulgaria is a net exporter of natural gas and electricity...

... and a transit country for Russian natural gas to Turkey, Greece and Macedonia.

The article you posted describes a political mechanism meant to insulate Bulgarian energy users from the recent extremes in gas prices beyond its border.

Residential and small business electricity consumers in Germany are shit out of luck however. Their electricity rates are approaching forty cents a kilowatt hour.

In France they pay less than half that rate and their electricity is largely "carbon neutral" in comparison.

Hmmm....

In Finland their most recent nuclear plants have been plagued by cost overruns but I suspect as time goes on the people there will be quite pleased with these plants in light of the current chaos in natural gas markets.