Edison SpA interested in renewable energy sources

After the meeting with energy minister of the Republic of Srpska Petar Đokić in the entity’s capital city Banja Luka, Irene Salerno from Italy’s Edison SpA said the company is interested in investing in green energy projects with a capacity of over 20 MW. The Edison’s regional manager added the enterprise is interested in starting […]

News July 18, 2015

Bridge and road will lead to future HPP site

On Lim river near the town of Rudo in eastern Bosnia, the construction of a bridge has started downstream from the dam. The 72 metres long object will be used for the needs of run-on-river hydropower plant Mrsovo, agency Srna said. Dragan Čvor, lead engineer in Comsar Energy’s project, said the works are on schedule. […]

News July 17, 2015

China Development Bank would back geothermal projects

Beijing Explo-Tech Engineering Co. Ltd. (Betec) is interested in exploiting geothermal energy in Vranje and Kuršumlija in southern Serbia, and in building a thermal power plant, the representatives of the company from China said at a meeting with president Tomislav Nikolić. Beta news agency reported the potential investors said the power plant construction should start by […]

EPS completes its organizational changes

Status changes from July 1 in the Electric Power Industry of Serbia (EPS) are the biggest organizational changes in the last two decades, the company’s newspaper EPS Energija said. Instead of 14 entities, the system now consists of three. After the restructuring programme was adopted by the Government of Serbia in November, the process started […]

News July 17, 2015

Electric car, buses, charger stations introduced

The northern Croatian Town of Koprivnica presented its two electric minibuses, first zero emissions public transport vehicles in the country, the municipal website said. The purchase was organized within electromobility project Civitas Dyn@mo, the biggest and most demanding that this local authority participates in. Koprivnica funded the endeavour with EUR 920,000 and the European Union […]

News July 16, 2015

Fintel Energia signs term sheet for Košava wind farm

MK-Fintel Wind AD, subsidiary of Fintel Energia Group SpA, signed a term sheet with a consortium formed by international partners to finance, build and operate a wind farm of up to 128.7 MW of installed power in the municipality of Vršac northeast of capital Belgrade. The consortium will acquire, subject to certain requirements, the majority […]

Exergy commissions low enthalpy geothermal plant

Italian organic Rankine cycle (ORC) turbines manufacturer Exergy has begun operations at a new 4 MW low enthalpy geothermal plant in Denizli region in Turkey’s southwest, Energy Business Review reported. The company has completed ORC binary installation, making the Akça plant the world’s first facility to be equipped with a 2-pressure-level cycle on a single-disk […]

News July 16, 2015

Utility pays eight municipalities EUR 6.1 million

Bosnian power utility Elektroprivreda HZHB said it paid eight local municipalities a total of BAM 12 million (EUR 6.1 million) in the first half of the year in compensation for using their hydroelectric storage facilities, SeeNews reported. The company is legally obliged to redirect a portion of its revenues from the use of storage facilities, […]

News July 16, 2015