New EUR 45 million loan for energy efficiency in Romania’s residential sector
Romanian households owners will be provided with additional EUR 45 million to invest in energy efficiency improvements, such as heating, water, and electricity, as well as additional building enclosures such as walls, windows and roofs, for their homes. Most of Romania’s residential buildings were constructed between 1960 and 1990 with low thermal insulation. “The European […]
Turkey started construction of its first solar module plant
Turkey has marked the end of this year by laying the groundwork for the Renewable Energy Resource Zone (YEKA), the country’s first photovoltaic cell and solar module plant. It should decrease country’s dependency on external energy resources. Commercial operations are expected in the first half of 2019. The Renewable Energy Resource Zone (YEKA) will have the capacity […]
Construction of Trans-Balkan Corridor’s section to start in 2018.
Serbia has been given a grant of EUR 6.6 million by the German development bank KfW to build a section of the Trans-Balkan Electricity Corridor, Serbian Minister of Mining and Energy Aleksandar Antić said. The Minister said that the construction of the section of the power corridor between the towns of Kraljevo and Kragujevac would […]
Possibilities and effects of using waste materials as energy in cement industry
Author: Prof. Dr Aleksandar Jovović, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Waste is first of all a community and health hazard, and secondarily a resource – the problem needs to be resolved, and the resource used. On the other hand, many analyses have concluded that this century will be a century of cities, which […]
GIZ ORF-EE to Focus on Climate Change Mitigation and Sustainable Urban Mobility in SEE
The GIZ Open Regional Fund for South-East Europe – Energy Efficiency (ORF-EE), active since 2008 in the region, continues to work on strengthening the capacities relevant for the energy efficiency sector of South-East European partner countries by, among others, fostering sector relevant regional cooperation and exchange. Within its new project phase, which was initiated end […]
Serbian section of Trans-Balkan Electricity Corridor put into operation
The Power system operator Elektromreža Srbije (EMS) put into operation the 68 km long Serbian section of a 400 Kv transmission line to Romania, as part of the Trans-Balkan Electricity Corridor project. The EUR 27-million power transmission line is the first completed section of the Corridor. It connects Pančevo, northeast from Belgrade, and Resita in […]
GIZ ORF-EE holds First South-East Europe Parliamentary Forum in Vienna
The 1st South-East Europe Parliamentary Forum was organized within the GIZ ORF-EE project Regional Cooperation and Capacity Development of Parliamentarians of South-East Europe on Energy Efficiency and Climate Protection. It took place on 20 December in the Energy Community in Vienna, in the framework of the Public Dialogue Initiative on Sustainable Use of Energy in […]
GGE responsible for two energy efficiency projects in Bulgaria
The leading regional energy services provider, Slovenia’s GGE has been responsible for two projects in Bulgaria, both primarily aimed to increase energy efficiency: at Cremio’s factory it has just finished installing LED lighting system while in Orgachim has initiated a heating system renovation. A few days ago, an entirely new LED lighting system was installed, […]