Serbia will prohibit the use of plastic bags
Serbia will completely ban the use of thin plastic bags and introduce a mandatory payment for biodegradable bags, the Ministry of Environmental Protection has announced. As stated by Politika, the Ministry is going to implement all the measures of the European Directive on plastics, adopted in February this year, although Serbia is not the member […]
Croatian HOPS announces new Management Board
The new chairman of the Management Board of the Croatian electricity transmission system operator HOPS is Mario Gudelj, while Ivica Modrić and Zlatko Visković have been appointed as new board members. The appointment of new management board members came after the regular termination of the mandate to the former board members – Miroslav Mesić (chairman), […]
European Parliament approves Circular Economy Package
The European Parliament has approved the European Union’s Circular Economy Package (CEP), backing higher recycling targets and new measures for waste reduction. The text now goes to the European Council for final approval of ministers before it becomes law and marks a shift in EU policy towards a circular economy. This is expected in May. […]
Turkey plans to conduct solar and wind tenders of 10 GW each
Turkey plans to hold 10 GW of solar and 10 GW of wind tenders in next 10 years as a part of Turkey’s Renewable Energy Resource Zone (YEKA) project. Turkey’s goal is to increase its energy capacity and to focus on renewable sources, Berat Albayrak, Turkey’s energy and natural resources minister announced earlier this week In […]
Energy minister announces reorganization of public utility ERS
Public utility Elektroprivreda Republike Srpske (ERS) will have to go through major transformation in the first half of 2019 in order to become even more efficient in its business, the Bosnian Serb entity’s Minister of Industry, Energy and Mining Petar Đokić said. According to media reports, he noted that two major obstacles to ERS’ development […]
Fifth RENEXPO Water & Energy fair next week in Belgrade
RENEXPO WATER & ENERGY will take place on April 24 – 26 in Belgrade and this year it will gather over 2,000 experts from Serbia, region and Europe to exchange opinions, knowledge and information on the latest technological advancements, innovations and solutions for sustainable development in the field of energy and the environment. RENEXPO WATER […]
Austria interested in investing in mini HPPs in Serbia
Austria is interested in building mini hydropower plants (HPP) in Serbia and exploring its significant potential in hydropower, the Serbian government announced after a meeting between Aleksandar Antić, Serbian energy ministry and Nikolaus Lutterotti, Austria’s newly appointed ambassador. Lutterotti said that Austria is ready to further strengthen cooperation, especially in the construction of mini hydropower plant. […]
WISE project presented at international workshop in Rome
Branislava Jovičić, project manager at WISE, has presented the results so far under the Women in Sustainable Energy project at the international workshop titled Knowledge Building on Women in Clean Energy. The WISE project was presented as an example of best practices in the collection of data on women’s representation in the sustainable energy sector. […]