Croatia offers EUR 27 million in grants for energy renovation of family houses
Croatia’s Environmental Protection and Energy Efficiency Fund will start receiving applications for grants to support the energy renovation of family houses on September 1. The budget for the program is about EUR 27 million. Individual applicants can receive up to EUR 27,000 to cover up to 60% of the costs of investments aimed at improving […]
Protesters in North Macedonia threaten escalation amid power price hike
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and an unfavorable hydrological situation prompted the Energy Regulatory Commission to accept the increase in prices proposed by power companies in North Macedonia. The third round of protests is scheduled for today and consumers want the independent body to be disbanded and electricity tariffs to be slashed by 46%. […]
Greenpeace demands coal phaseout in Bulgaria by 2030
The government in Sofia should look up to Greece in its energy policy, according to Balin Balinov from Greenpeace Bulgaria, who called for a coal exit twenty years earlier than in the national plan. Environmentalists are pointing to the damage from maintaining thermal power plants using the fossil fuel. While the Minister of Energy Temenuzhka […]
Slovenia approves EUR 12.7 million for unfinished infrastructure at HPP Brežice
The Slovenian government has approved an additional EUR 12.7 million to complete the unfinished infrastructure at hydropower plant (HPP) Brežice on the river Sava and extended the time frame for the works until the end of summer 2022. The unfinished infrastructure works that need to be completed concern nature protection measures as well as flood […]
Romania rolls out agricultural land law amid renewables producers outcry
RWEA and PATRES have warned the rules coming into force on October 13 would make it nearly impossible to develop renewable energy projects on land outside cities. Romania introduced a string of categories of individuals and entities that will have priority in buying agricultural land and it can’t be repurposed. President of Romania Klaus Iohannis […]
Final turbine installed at Europe’s biggest onshore wind complex Fosen
The 1.06 GW Fosen complex in central Norway, Europe’s largest onshore wind power project, has seen its final turbine installed. The last of the 277 turbines supplied by Vestas was erected at the sub-project Geitfjellet, Recharge has reported, quoting the project’s majority owner, Norwegian state-controlled power utility Statkraft. Statkraft CEO Christian Rynning-Tønnesen has recently said […]
Romania’s Slatina successfully implementing its first SUMP
The Romanian City of Slatina has been successfully implementing its first SUMP (sustainable urban mobility plan), which it developed in 2017 to tackle heavy traffic caused by a mix of commuter journeys, transit traffic, and shopping trips and with the aim of becoming a more liveable, healthy, and economically attractive city. After identifying the main […]
Suzlon to use fewer, stronger turbines for 25 MW Ivan Sedlo wind park
The subsidiary of a Danish-based company requested another environmental permit after revising the project for a wind power plant near Sarajevo. Suzlon said the Ivan Sedlo facility would consist of five instead of 12 units. The Ministry of Environment and Tourism of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina said Suzlon Wind Energy BH filed a […]
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