Day in 3 news: Hands off coal, Maritsa tells EU; Unlikely coalition almost sealed; Energy production down

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

Day in 3 news: Borissov wants to be PM; Bonev-Terziev relationship on the brink; Maritsa East 2 reports losses

The week: Dispatches from the frontlines of the heat war

Bulgaria bakes, coal TPPs fire up and no Anti-Peevski front forms

Day in 3 news: BNB says sub-governor’s removal "legitimate", but up to Parliament; Heatwave ignites coal TPPs; Bulgarian state-owned firms expensive, inefficient: IMF

What lies behind the domestic electricity price surge?

The debate evolved after the deferral of the market liberalization and Maritsa East subsidies

The day in 3 news: Sofia center blocked by energy protest; MPs vote for deferred electricity liberalization; 15 million levs for building renovation

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 biggest Bulgarian energy companies: war tastes like money

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

The day in 3 news: GERB and WCC-DB broker deal; Geshev leaks exchanges; TPP Martisa-East 2 has record profits

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 day in 3 news: ECJ sanctions coal plant over pollution; BGN 25 million for new traffic cameras; Pro-Russian protest in Sofia

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

The day in 3 news: Maritsa 3 TPP closed due to pollution; Eight parties may enter next parliament: poll; New compensation for business facing high gas prices

Solar systems for self-consumption

Many Bulgarian businesses want to add photovoltaic systems to reduce their own electricity bills – what are their options?