Zagreb City Gas Company Given 316,463 Euros to Upgrade Cyber Security
ZAGREB, September 3, 2020 - The European Commission has approved slightly more than HRK 2.3 million for Gradska Plinara Zagreb (GPZ), Croatia's biggest gas distributor, for a project designed to improve cyber security for safe and reliable gas distribution, GPZ said on Thursday.
GPZ has been given €316,463 for a project aimed at upgrading information security as part of the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF Telekom), a fund intended for investment in the EU's digital infrastructure projects in the areas of transport, energy and digital technology.
Under the agreement with the Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA), which signed it on behalf of the European Commission, 75% of the project, worth more than HRK 3.1 million, will be co-financed.
The project, to be conducted until June 2022, will strengthen the company's capacity to respond to cyber security incidents, GPZ said.
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E.ON Buys Gas Distribution Companies from Nova Gradiska and Kutina
ZAGREB, July 9, 2020 - The E.ON Croatia energy company on Thursday acquired two gas distribution and retail companies - Plin-Projekt from Nova Gradiska and Moslavina Plin from Kutina, becoming the third-largest gas distributor in Croatia with 43,000 customers.
With the acquisition of Plin-Projekt and Moslavina Plin, E.ON Croatia has become the 100% owner of another two gas distribution and retail companies with 19,000 customers, the company said in a statement on Thursday without disclosing the value of the transaction.
In recent years, E.ON has taken over two gas companies in Croatia - Koprivnica Plin and Montcogim Plinara. With the latest acquisitions, E.ON has become the largest gas distributor in the country, with 43,000 customers within the 1,650-km gas network.
"We are successfully continuing to achieve our strategy to become one of the leading companies on the Croatian gas distribution market," CEO Karl Kraus said in the statement.
Until this year E.ON Croatia had operated under the name RWE. As a result of the reshuffling of the European energy market, German energy giant E.ON took over RWE's subsidiary Innogy, of which RWE Croatia and its affiliates were part.
