Heat allocators save EUR 17 million

A study by Ista Romania, a company specialized in providing individual metering systems, shows that residents with heat allocators in their homes saved over EUR 17 million, Business Review’s website reported. Calculations were based on data from heating agent distributor Radet Bucharest, measured between October 2014 and April 2015. The cost is 31.4% lower than […]

News October 21, 2015

Energy efficiency certificate for new housing project

Enova, an independent certifying agency for residential buildings, issued an energy certificate for Miljacka project, which is being built in Sarajevo, developing company MS&Wood d. d. said. From 2013 the certificate is obligatory for all new objects and old public buildings. Units in Miljacka quarter, named after Sarajevo’s main river, have façade insulation 15 centimetres […]

News October 21, 2015

Developers ask for deadlines to be postponed

Forced to operate amid stifling conditions prompted by capital controls imposed in Greece in the summer, entrepreneurs in the renewable energy sources sector, presently unable to make progress on new investments and facing permit deadlines, have asked the government to stop the clock and resume the count once the currently abnormal banking restrictions have ended, […]

News October 20, 2015

MK-Fintel’s wind turbines arrive in Kula

After they were unloaded from barges in Apatin shipyard on the Danube in Serbia’s northwest, parts of three wind generators were transported 40 kilometres further to the construction site in the municipality of Kula, Večernje novosti newspaper’s portal said. Preparation works have been finished, according to MK-Fintel Wind a. d., the venture company which is […]

Renewables October 18, 2015

Energy Community adopts 20% target on efficiency

The 13th Energy Community Ministerial Council took place today in Tirana under the Albanian presidency in office of the Energy Community. A study on progress in renewable energy and assessment of action plans was published. European commissioner for climate action and energy Miguel Arias Cañete, representing the European Union at the meeting, said: “The Energy […]

News October 16, 2015

Study underway for Kostolac wind power plant

National power producer EPS published an invitation on October 12 for offers for a feasibility study with a concept design for a future wind power plant at the coal mining complex of Kostolac, 90 kilometres east of Belgrade. The public procurement project JN 1000-0041-2015 is for a wind park study for possible locations of Drmno, […]

Renewables October 16, 2015

Power purchase agreements finally on the table

Ministry of Mining and Energy of Serbia organized a public consultation process on proposed directives for incentives for the production of energy from renewable sources and highly efficient cogeneration. The documents include the conditions for achieving the status of a privileged producer, temporarily privileged producer and of a producer from renewable energy sources. Another directive […]

News October 16, 2015

Erdemir group’s loan from EBRD pending signing

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development said its board approved a long-term loan of up to EUR 75 million (or equivalent in dollars) to Ereğli Demir ve Çelik Fabrikaları TAŞ (Erdemir) and İskenderun Demir ve Çelik AŞ (İsdemir). The group was incorporated in Turkey in 1960 and runs steel production facilities in Ereğli and […]

News October 16, 2015