Cyprus, Greece and Jordan agreed on renewable energy cooperation

At their first-ever trilateral meeting, leaders of Cyprus, the host of the summit, Greece and Jordan agreed on strengthening regional cooperation in energy sector, particularly in renewable energy. Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, and Jordan’s King Abdullah II discussed all political and economic issues of importance for all three respective countries and signed several agreements for cooperation […]

Recycling yard for electrical and electronic waste to be built at Smiljevići landfill in BiH

A recycling yard for electrical and electronic waste will be built as part of Sarajevo’s Smiljevići landfill transformation into the Regional Waste Management Center. Public waste utility KJKP Rad’s PR representative Mirza Ramić told portal Klix.ba that the first phase of construction was completed last year, and that construction works are ongoing. “The construction of […]

Montenegro will not issue new energy license in 2018

The Ministry of Economy of Montenegro did not foresee issuing energy permits in 2018. The reason is that Montenegro is already close to reaching the national target of 33 percent of the produced energy from renewable energy sources (RES). The Government of Montenegro recently adopted the Energy Licensing Plan in 2018, which did not foresee […]

Energy Community initiates dispute settlement procedures, three Contracting Parties failed to unbundle DSOs

The Energy Community Secretariat opened preliminary dispute settlement procedures against Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina and Ukraine for the failure to fulfill their obligations under the Energy Community Treaty to legally and functionally unbundle national electricity distribution system operators (DSO). “The Energy Community Secretariat initiated ex officio preliminary dispute settlement procedures against Albania, BiH, and Ukraine for […]

Oil company Jugopetrol eyeing electricity generation from renewable energy sources in Montenegro

Montenegro-based oil company Jugopetrol will try to expand its energy portfolio and to assess the potential of Montenegro in the production of electricity from renewable energy sources, which is its area of interest for investment, said Antonis Semelides, executive director at Jugopetrol. ’Jugopetrol, owned by Greece’s Hellenic Petroleum, has already announced plans to transform from […]