USAID Macedonia Clean Energy Investment Project

  WHO WE ARE The USAID Clean Energy Investment Project builds upon and expands the ongoing USAID assistance that has laid the groundwork for developing renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies and industries in Macedonia. The three-year project, initiated in April 2013, will support the Government of Macedonia’s efforts in implementing relevant strategies with the […]

Energy Efficiency August 27, 2015

Agricultural biomass in the Western Balkans

Authors are members of Serbian National Association SERBIO: Vojislav Milijić, president, Tomislav Micović, vice-president and Zorica Gluvakov, secretary. Most of the Western Balkans are situated in mountain areas, however there are significant portions of agricultural and arable agricultural land utilized for growing crops such as wheat, corn, soya, sunflower and others. Arable agricultural land used […]

Features August 27, 2015

EU heating debate may bring cure for energy poverty

AEBIOM, the European Biomass Association, has decided to support initiatives for the development of bioenergy sector in the Danube region, the organization’s general secretary Jean-Marc Jossart told Balkan Green Energy News. “Last year we noticed a growing interest in Brussels and at the European Union level” for the objective, he said in an interview. An […]

Skourletis opens way for island hybrid power stations

A ministerial decision specifying terms and conditions for the sale of electricity by hybrid power stations to noninterconected island networks was signed by Panos Skourletis, minister for production, reconstruction, environment and energy, prior to his departure from the post, Energy Press of Greece reported. The former government, headed by Syriza party, resigned on August 20. […]

Renewables August 27, 2015

Installing of underwater cable soon to be continued

After getting approval from Croatia to lay the underwater power cable in its waters, there are no other obstacles to continue the energy project to connect Montenegro and Italy. Dnevne novine, daily newspaper, learned the continuation of installing the 250 kilometres of cable, which will eventually be connected to the power station under construction in […]

News August 27, 2015

Buschle: Region lagging in goals for renewables

Most Southeast European members of the Energy Community is behind schedule with obligations to increase the share of renewable sources in their energy mix, said Dirck Buschle, deputy head of the organization’s secretariat, and added goals probably won’t be met. Mistakes made by European Union member states in developing renewable energy sector must be avoided, […]

News August 27, 2015

ABB on tour with electric car presentations

Regional Chamber of Commerce in Kruševac, a city in central Serbia, organized a presentation of projects, experiences and equipment in the field of fast charging stations for electric vehicles. The municipal authority invited representatives of automation and power technologies company ABB, headquartered in Switzerland, to show possibilities of electric car transportation as an environmentally friendly […]

News August 27, 2015

Energy Efficiency Network in Western Balkans launched

Energy Innovation Center Teslianum said it started a project entitled Energy Efficiency Network in Western Balkans with LEEN GmbH as a strategic partner, and with the support of the State Government of Baden-Württemberg of Germany and its Ministry for International Cooperation. Project’s main goal is to identify and establish Learning Energy Efficiency Networks (LEEN). Financed […]

News August 26, 2015