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2024: Bulgaria collapses as electricity exporter
The country has produced record amounts of solar electricity, but is losing market share and is increasingly less competitive due to sluggish reforms in the sector.

K100 2024: Stagnation after the boom for Bulgaria’s largest firms
The new annual edition of Capital 100 ranking shows that the revenues of the top 100 companies shrank by 14% last year after the boom in the energy sector in 2022. The star businesses of 2023 are arms, cars and solar

The week: Schengen on the horizon
Good news, at last, The regional divide grows bigger, Bulgargaz is bankrupt

The week: Dispatches from the frontlines of the heat war
Bulgaria bakes, coal TPPs fire up and no Anti-Peevski front forms

What lies behind the domestic electricity price surge?
The debate evolved after the deferral of the market liberalization and Maritsa East subsidies

Who wants a free market? Bulgaria postpones wholesale electricity market liberalization
Meanwhile, households will have missed the optimum moment for liberalization because electricity prices are currently at their lowest

The week: Varna’s promise, Sofia’s divide, WCC's suspicious Brussels move, BG Football's dictator moment
K insights newsletter: 10.11

The 50 most dynamic companies: Another burst of energy
Revenues of the fastest-growing large companies jumped by an average of 139% in 2022

Bulgaria’s 100 largest companies: record revenue and profits for 2022
The Ukraine war has pushed the turnover of the companies in the K100 ranking to BGN 132 billion, or 60% up on the year before

Bulgaria: No Territorial transition plans, no EU billions for coal transition
The caretaker government’s decision to link territorial plans submission with Recovery Plan negotiation puts at risk 1.2 billion in funding for three regions transitioning away from coal

The week: Goodbye to the euro, see you again sometimes?
Is the euro coming at all, the Russian assets in Bulgaria are in for a freeze, trouble at the European prosecution

The week: Borissov’s EU accomplices, Energy woes and 2.25 billion euro in state bonds
EPP’s selective vision of graft in Bulgaria, Deadly police corruption and some good business news