Consultant sought for housing energy efficiency credit lines
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development published an invitation for expressions of interest for consultancy services in scaling up its operations of Sustainable Energy Financing Facilities (SEFF) in Croatia. Households are the largest energy user, consuming more than 30% of the total final energy consumption, the notice said. Households are also the largest consumer of […]
JinkoSolar to supply 50 MW of solar panels to Tegnatia
Photovoltaic industry supplier JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. announced it would supply panels of 50 MW overall capacity to Turkey’s renewable energy developer Tegnatia. According to the agreements signed by both parties at the beginning of 2015, the equipment will be delivered in several shipments bound for projects across Turkey. Tegnatia is a joint venture between […]
Basketball star’s factory supplies EPS with smart meters
EWG’s factory from the eastern Serbian town of Bor won the controversial tendering for the production of smart power meters for Electric Power Industry of Serbia (EPS), Belgrade newspaper Večernje novosti said on May 12. The company, which launched production in 2013, is owned by Dejan Bodiroga, International Basketball Federation (FIBA) official and retired Serbian […]
Parliament ignoring petition against power price hike
Civil Society Consortium for Sustainable Development (Kosid) demanded from the parliament of Kosovo* to envisage all the points of the petition against the increase of the price of power supply, Independent Balkans News Agency’s portal reported. Through this petition, last September the organizers and 33 thousand signatories demanded from the parliament to abrogate the decision […]
Bulgaria reluctant to join regional auction platform
Plans to create a single European cross-border capacity auction platform is holding back the Bulgarian transmission system operator from joining the regional platform. This is despite the fact a joint European auction platform might only be operational by 2019, petrochemical market information provider ICIS reported. At a recent industry event, Victoria Popovska, head of the […]
IFC invests in Finans Leasing to help energy efficiency
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, said it is providing a USD 60 million (EUR 52.62 million) loan to Finans Leasing, a leading Turkish leasing company, to boost lending to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) for sustainable energy efficiency projects that will cut costs and help protect the environment. IFC will lend USD […]
Pressure mounts on EBRD to quit Mavrovo dams project
The Macedonian government has plans to make Mavrovo the home for two large and around 15 small hydro power plants, one with financial support from the EBRD, even though this is the largest and richest national park in the country and home to the critically endangered Balkan Lynx, CEE Bankwatch Network said. Boškov most, one of […]
German company scanning energy projects to invest in
AEG Industrial Engineering AG perceives Macedonia as being the main energy center in the region, said Heinrich Otterpohl, CEO of the German company, part of a delegation visiting Macedonia, the former Yugoslav republic’s government said on its website. In a meeting with deputy prime minister for economic affairs Vladimir Peševski, Otterpohl praised Macedonia’s investment opportunities, […]
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