EBRD looking to employ Principal Fund Manager, Renewable District Energy

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is seeking to hire Principal Fund Manager, Renewable District Energy, to be based in Belgrade, Serbia. The deadline to apply is September 19. Reporting to the Deputy Head of Municipal and Environmental Infrastructure and in close collaboration with the respective sector teams, including the Energy Efficiency and Climate Change […]

Government proposes changes to law on renewable energy sources

The Croatian government has adopted a bill on changes and amendments to the law on renewable energy sources and high-efficiency cogeneration, which envisages extending the requirement for electricity suppliers to buy electricity produced from renewable energy sources at the regulated price. Electricity suppliers would be required to buy a share expressed as a percentage of […]

Renewables August 28, 2018

3rd Energy Community Summer School kicks off in Split

Forty young women and men, postgraduate students and young professionals from 26 countries gathered in Split, Croatia on August 25, taking part in the official 3rd Energy Community Summer School Kick-off Ceremony. The School will run until September 1 and brings together participants and lecturers from various backgrounds. ORF-EE supports the implementation of the EnC Summer […]

Tendering procedure launched to lease locations for 18 SHPPs

Public water management company Srbijavode has launched a tendering procedure to lease locations for the construction of 18 small hydropower plants (SHPPs). A single bid can refer to only one of the offered 18 locations for the construction of SHPPs. The deadline to file bids is September 21. The largest number of locations, six in […]

Renewables August 27, 2018

All of EPS’ coal-fired power plants will have to meet EU environmental protection standards

Serbian public power utility Elektroprivreda Srbije (EPS) will have to comply with all EU environmental standards concerning its coal-fired power plants, EPS’ supervisory board chairman, Branko Kovačević, PhD, tells Balkan Green Energy News. The long-serving university professor believes that EPS’ electricity production will be based on coal and hydropower, as well as renewable energy sources, […]

Interviews August 27, 2018

FEIT 1st university school in Macedonia to install rooftop PV systems

The Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje’s Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies (FEIT) is the first university school in Macedonia to have launched electricity production for self-consumption using rooftop photovoltaic (PV) systems, according to a statement from the FEIT. Though small, the EUR 27,500 investment in the two rooftop PV systems sends […]