Electricity prices across the region to increase by up to 40% in 2019
Electricity prices for businesses went up in Croatia this year, while hikes have been announced for 2019 in Serbia, of about 20%, and Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), of around 15%. At the same, wholesale prices in Romania could increase by 40%. Electricity supply for the business segment in the region has been liberalized, and state […]
Norway’s Statkraft seeks to build floating solar power plant in Albania
Norway’s state-owned Statkraft, the world’s largest hydropower company and Europe’s largest generator of renewable energy, has filed a request to build a floating solar power plant in Albania, according to reports citing Albania’s energy ministry. Statkraft, which produces hydropower, wind power, solar power, gas-fired power, and supplies district heating, has been operating its first hydropower […]
2018 tracks progress for sustainability in Energy Community Contracting Parties
Author: Irina Lazzerini, Sustainable Energy Expert, Energy Community Secretariat When opening the Energy Community homepage, the first information that captures the reader’s attention is the mission of the organization: creating an integrated and sustainable pan-European energy market. And indeed, during the last few years, sustainability has increasingly become a pivotal consideration when designing and adopting […]
Novi Pazar pulls out of buying location for biomass heating plant
The City of Novi Pazar has given up on signing an agreement to buy bankrupt textile firm Raška’s assets, including a wastewater treatment plant, a boiler facility, and other facilities, on a location designated for the construction of a new biomass heating plant, it has been confirmed for local radio broadcaster Sto Plus. In early […]
Auctions for cross-border power capacities at border with Bulgaria to be held by Joint Allocation Office from 2019
Auctions for cross-border power capacities at the border with Bulgaria will be held by Joint Allocation Office S.A. (JAO) from Luxembourg from next year, the Energy Agency of the Republic of Serbia (AERS) said in a press release. So far, the long-term auctions have been conducted by Bulgarian transmission system operator (TSO) ESO, while daily […]
EU concludes political talks on clean energy package, to cut subsidies for most polluting coal power plants as early as 2025
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and EU member states have reached a provisional agreement on a recast internal electricity market regulation and directive, concluding the political negotiations on the Clean Energy for All Europeans package. The provisional agreement envisages scrapping subsidies as capacity mechanisms for power plants emitting more than 550 gr of CO2 […]
Expropriation getting ahead for Niš Wastewater Collection and Treatment Project
A meeting was held with representatives of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and the line ministry in the south Serbian city of Niš yesterday to discuss the implementation of the Niš Wastewater Collection and Treatment Project, according to a statement on the city’s website. Out of 600 plots of land needed for the […]
Power utility EPCG plans to launch tendering for reconstruction of 5 small HPPs
Montenegro’s state power utility Elektroprivreda Crne Gore (EPCG) plans to launch tendering in the third quarter of 2019 to select a contractor to produce, deliver, and install equipment, as well as a contractor to produce the main design plan for a project to overhaul and modernize five small hydropower plants (SHPP), EPCG has said in […]
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