Republic of Srpska waiting for waste management strategy
The draft Strategy on waste management has been submitted to the Republika of Srpska Parliament for adoption and has won unanimous support among MPs, RS Spatial Planning, Civil Engineering and Ecology Srebrenka Golić said in a meeting with Swedish Ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina Anders Hagelberg. The ambassador said the Republic of Srpska has taken positive steps […]
Final Facilitating multi-level governance for Energy Efficiency (multEE) project conference held in Vienna
The GIZ Open Regional Fund for South-East Europe – Energy Efficiency (ORF-EE), in collaboration with its Facilitating multi-level governance for Energy Efficiency (multEE) project consortium partners and the Energy Community Secretariat, held the Final multEE Project Conference on June 29 in Vienna. The conference attracted government officials from nine multEE partner countries, as well as […]
Slovenia supports district heating projects based on renewables with EUR 8 million grant
The Ministry of Infrastructure of Slovenia has published a call for co-financing of district heating projects based on use of renewable energy sources. The projects will be supported with a grant of total value of EUR 8 million. The call is open until all the funds for the period 2017-2020 are allocated, which would be […]
New state secretaries appointed at Croatian Ministry of Environment and Energy
The Government of Croatia has appointed Ivo Milatić and Mile Horvat as state secretaries at the Croatian Ministry of Environment and Energy. Milatić is former Assistant Minister of Economy who has served two terms as Director of Commodity Reserves Directorate. From 2012 to 2014, he was the Chairman of the Croatian Compulsory Oil Stocks Agency’s […]
49 percent of energy savings achieved after reconstruction of public buildings in Montenegro
The annual consumption of energy dropped by 49 percent in most of the buildings reconstructed under a program to raise energy efficiency levels in public buildings, the Montenegrin Ministry of the Economy said. The energy efficiency adaptation program covered 43 buildings and monitoring showed that huge energy savings were made in 39 of them. The […]
Đuro Đaković in charge of construction of first geothermal power plant in Croatia
Croatian group Đuro Đaković has signed EUR 9.6 million deal for the construction of a geothermal power plant near the city of Bjelovar, in central Croatia. It has signed the deal with Croatian energy company Geoen which is in charge of the project. Đuro Đakovic group will build the Velika 1 plant. The group will be also […]
252 new charging stations for electric vehicles in Central Europe thanks to NEXT-E project
The European Commission has approved co-funding of the NEXT-E project which foresees setting up of 252 charging stations in six EU Member States in the Central Europe, including Croatia, Slovenia and Romania. The co-funding of the project was approved by the European Commission in the second half of June. The project duration is three years […]
Italian A2A offers its EPCG shares to Government of Montenegro for EUR 250 million
The Italian energy company A2A has offered to the Government of Montenegro its shares in the Montenegrin power company, Elektroprivreda Crne Gore (EPCG) for EUR 250 million. A2A submitted to the Government of Montenegro the Put Option notice which refers to the sale of the whole stake owned by the Italian company in EPCG for […]