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Refinery by-products: Petcoke, bitumen and construction inflation in South-East Europe

The transfer of ownership of Russian oil assets across South-East Europe has not only changed who controls refineries and fuel retail networks; it has fundamentally altered how a range of secondary energy commodities are priced, supplied and financed. These by-products of refining—petroleum coke, bitumen, sulphur and heavy fuel intermediates—rarely feature in high-level energy debates, yet […]

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Nuclear fuel and uranium: Europe’s quiet Russian dependency

The ownership exit of Russian oil assets from South-East Europe has sharpened attention on vulnerabilities that were long considered peripheral to the region’s energy debate. Among them, nuclear fuel stands out as the least visible and yet most structurally entrenched dependency. While oil and gas flows dominate political discourse, the nuclear fuel cycle continues to

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Coal and lignite after oil: Hidden subsidy crisis in SEE electricity

The reordering of ownership in South-East Europe’s oil sector has had an effect far beyond fuels and refineries. By forcing oil pricing onto transparent, market-based terms, it has removed a long-standing buffer that masked deeper distortions elsewhere in the energy system. Nowhere is this more evident than in electricity generation based on coal and lignite.

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Gas markets without Russian ownership: Volatility as a structural feature in South-East Europe

The withdrawal of Russian ownership from oil assets across South-East Europe has triggered a deeper and more destabilising shift in the region’s natural gas markets. While oil ownership changes are visible and politically managed, gas has become the silent transmission channel through which volatility, balance-sheet stress and structural dependency now propagate. Unlike oil, gas markets

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Europe’s grid build-out and the strategic repositioning of SEE’s power markets

The European Commission’s decision to accelerate and scale up Europe’s electricity grid expansion is not simply a technical upgrade programme. It is a structural market intervention whose consequences will be felt most sharply in peripheral but highly interconnected regions such as South-East Europe (SEE). While the stated objectives are lower energy prices, faster renewable integration

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Stress test for SEE’s energy system: What happens if all nuclear capacity is shut down and how renewables and balancing absorb the shock

A full shutdown of nuclear power across South-East Europe would represent the most severe structural stress test the regional energy system has faced since market liberalisation. Unlike price shocks or fuel disruptions, nuclear exit would remove firm, low-marginal-cost baseload that currently anchors system stability, cross-border trade and seasonal balance. The consequences would not be linear. They would

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Lenders and state-owned power utilities in South-East Europe: Megawatts financed, capital deployed and the long-term liabilities embedded in the system

State-owned power utilities in South-East Europe remain the structural backbone of the regional electricity system, even as private renewables, batteries and merchant assets dominate new capacity additions. What has changed is not their centrality, but the nature of their financial exposure. Today, state utilities sit at the convergence of legacy megawatts, new grid investments, lender-driven capital

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Who really owns and finances battery-backed renewables in south-east europe: how storage, capital and control reshaped the region’s power system

Battery energy storage has not merely complemented renewable energy in South-East Europe; it has fundamentally redefined who owns assets, who finances them, who controls dispatch and who ultimately captures value. Wind turbines and solar panels still dominate the physical landscape, but economically they are no longer the centre of gravity. The decisive asset is storage,

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Oil storage in Southeast Europe: Strategic capacity, market power, prices, forecasts, Capex/Opex realities and the new competitive landscape

Oil storage in Southeast Europe is moving from a background logistical function into one of the most powerful strategic assets shaping the region’s energy markets, trading dynamics, pricing trajectories and industrial competitiveness. As ownership of Russian-linked downstream assets continues to unwind and European, Central European and global players position themselves to take control of refining,

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Gas storage: The hidden power lever reshaping Southeast Europe’s energy security, trading dynamics, and industrial pricing

Gas storage facilities have become one of the most decisive variables in shaping Southeast Europe’s evolving energy reality, and once integrated into the broader transition from Russian-anchored supply to diversified ownership, they fundamentally alter trading dynamics, pricing structures and industrial security. If refineries determine fuel sovereignty and upstream supply defines strategic exposure, then gas storage

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