Boris Granovsky named CEO of project company to develop Plandište wind farm
Boris Granovsky (42) has been appointed as CEO of a project company to develop the 102 MW Plandište wind farm in the Serbian municipality of Plandiste, according to a press release from Serbia-based oil company NIS, majority owned by Russia’s Gazprom. NIS is developing the wind farm together with MET Renewables. The goal is to […]
BELEN selects Nord Pool as partner to establish Montenegrin day-ahead power market
Berza Električne Energije (BELEN), the power exchange company of Montenegro, has selected Nord Pool as a partner to create the first competitive Montenegrin day-ahead power market, which is expected to be operational in 2020. The cooperation will include support to establish processes and procedures required to operate a national day-ahead market in Montenegro, market coupling […]
Earth Hour 2019 switch-off this Saturday March 30 at 8:30 pm
On Saturday, March 30 at 8:30 pm local time, skylines around the world will go dark as millions of people celebrate Earth Hour to show their commitment to protect the planet, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said in a press release. As nature declines like never before, coupled with the ever-present challenge of […]
Government defiant on Tuzla 7 coal project, as Energy Community launches dispute settlement procedure
The Energy Community Secretariat has sent an Opening Letter to Bosnia and Herzegovina for non-compliance with the state aid acquis regarding the Tuzla 7 project, in what is the first step in the dispute settlement procedure. In the meantime, Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations of BiH Mirko Šarović said that the new unit […]
Croatia heads to WindEurope 2019 Conference & Exhibition in force
The WindEurope 2019 Conference & Exhibition, the old continent’s largest and leading wind energy event this year, will gather representatives of key European institutions and companies in the sector in Bilbao, Spain from April 2 to 4. Minister of Environmental Protection and Energy Tomislav Ćorić will be the first Croatian minister ever to address the […]
Eight Croatian, Cypriot cities enter energy efficiency competition under C4S project
Four Croatian cities – Zadar, Rijeka, Osijek, and Velika Gorica, and four Cypriot cities – Agios Athanasios, Lakatamia, Aradippou, and Paralimni – are among those taking part in the European energy-saving competition under the Compete4SECAP project (C4S). The project, funded under the Horizon 2020 program, is also being implemented in Latvia, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, […]
Expert views (part four): What would the ideal allocation from the Green Fund look like?
In the fourth and last in a series of interviews on waste management with representatives of state institutions, the business community, academia, and civil society in Serbia, we asked what the ideal allocation under the Green Fund, which has yet to be formed, would look like. The answers were provided by all six respondents featured […]
Initiative to protect drinking water under the Constitution launched in Serbian parliament
The Green Party has launched an initiative in the parliament of the Republic of Serbia to protect drinking water under the Constitution. The Green Party recently presented a five-point plan for the “unchecked surge of small hydropower plants (SHPPs)”. The plan’s key point is to protect drinking water under the Constitution and in the meantime […]
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