EU’s Third Energy Package and Republika Srpska’s energy sector
Author: Boris Lubarda, head of the general electricity and energy efficiency section, the Ministry of Energy and Mining of Republika Srpska With the adoption of a draft law on electricity in September this year, Republika Srpska launched a process of laying the legal groundwork for ordering its electricity sector according to the rules required by […]
ERS, EPHZHB to continue with cooperation on electricity production at PHE Čapljina
Public power utilities Elektroprivreda Republike Srpske (ERS) and Elektroprivreda Hrvatske Zajednice Herceg Bosne (EPHZHB) have agreed to continue with their cooperation on electricity production at pumped-storage hydropower plant PHE Čapljina in 2020. The cooperation in 2020 will be regulated by an agreement worth roughly BAM 100 million (around EUR 51.2 million), under which ERS will […]
Biodiversity_Next Conference reveals next steps in biodiversity protection information systems
The city of Leiden in the Netherlands was the capital of biodiversity when it hosted a four-day conference titled Biodiversity_Next in the second half of October. For the first time at this scale, the event brought major international organisations, research scientists, and policy makers together to jointly identify socio-technical bottlenecks and horizon-scan opportunities around data-intensive […]
Možura wind farm, Montenegro’s second largest, officially starts operation
The Možura wind farm, Montenegro’s second largest, with an installed capacity of 46 MW, has been officially inaugurated. The EUR 90 million wind farm was put in operation by Montenegrin energy minister Dragica Sekulić and Maltese energy and water supply minister Joe Mizzi. The Možura wind farm was built by a consortium of Maltese state-owned […]
40 buildings in BiH to be energy-renovated with EUR 19.5 million grant
The Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) has adopted draft agreements between the German development bank KfW and relevant institutions of Republika Srpska and the Federation of BiH on a EUR 19.5 million grant for the energy renovation of buildings. The grant will be implemented through KfW via financing agreements to be signed […]
Conference on renewable energy sources in district heating and cooling to be held in Belgrade on December 5-6
Regional conference Renewable Energy Sources in District Heating and Cooling Systems, organized by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Federal Ministry of Finance of Austria, in partnership with the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), will be held in Belgrade on December 5-6. The conference takes place at Sava Center as part […]
Croatia’s first geothermal power plant Velika 1 officially unveiled
Croatia’s first geothermal power plant, the 16.5 MW Velika 1 in Ciglena near Bjelovar, has been officially unveiled in a ceremony attended by Croatian Minister of Environmental Protection and Energy Tomislav Ćorić and Muharrem Balat, Chairman of the Board of Turkey’s MB Holding, which owns the plant. Europe’s biggest binary power plant was built in […]
Hrvatski Telekom, GEN-I agree long-term cooperation on e-mobility
Croatian telecommunications provider Hrvatski Telekom, which operates the largest network of electric vehicle charging stations in the country, and Slovenian electricity supplier and trader GEN-I have signed an agreement on long-term cooperation in the field of e-mobility, enabling GEN-I customers in Slovenia and Croatia who drive e-vehicles to use all e-chargers operated by Hrvatski Telekom. […]
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