Participants of the second Energy Community Summer School are selected
The Energy Community Secretariat in consultation with a network of academic and research institutions of the participating countries has selected the participants of the second edition of the Energy Community Summer School, to take place in Ohrid in late summer this year. Following a call announced for the second Summer School in January 2017, 188 total […]
GGF provides EUR 20 million senior loan to UniCredit Bank for renewable energy financing in Serbia
The senior loan for financing renewable energy projects represents the beginning of the cooperation between GGF and UniCredit Bank Serbia. The renewable energy projects to be financed by the GGF loan are expected to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 47,000 tons. The Green for Growth Fund (GGF) and UniCredit Bank Serbia have signed a loan agreement […]
There’s no such thing as a free lunch
By Kristina Cvejanov, President on Serbian Packaging Waste Recyclers Association The media recently reported that Serbia is preparing to open Chapter 27 on the environment in its accession negotiations with the European Union by the end of this year or early next year. The plan is to complete the draft negotiation platform by the end of […]
SEEED 2017 – IENE regional conference in Belgrade – need for further cooperation
IENE’s tenth edition of Energy Dialogue, SE Europe Energy Dialogue, will be organized in Belgrade on June 13-14, Metropol hotel. This year’s Energy Dialogue comes at a time when momentous global developments are taking place with profound implications for the region’s energy situation, says the message of IENE, that has been successfully organizing these conferences ever since […]
1.5 MW EBRD financed solar power plant in Cyprus goes online
A 1.5 MW solar power plant was inaugurated in Cyprus on May 11 as the first of five plants planned to form a solar power farm in Nisou just outside Nicosia. The ceremony was held on the sidelines of the Annual Board of Governors Meeting of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) which […]
EPS calls second tender to reconstruct small hydropower plants
The Serbian Electric Power Industry (EPS) has called the second tender for the rehabilitation of seven more small hydropower plants (SHPPs) in Serbia. The EPS invited companies from across the world to submit sealed offers for the work on the plants. The offers must be submitted in English by noon on July 5, 2017. Tender […]
Gemini commissions biggest North Sea offshore wind farm
The Gemini Offshore Wind Park was opened about 85 kilometers from the Dutch coast off Groningen in the North Sea in an area with average wind speeds of about 36 kilometers an hour. It has a power production capacity of 600 MW with 150 turbines deployed over an area of 68 square kilometers. Speaking at the […]
EUR 25 million loan for upgrading Sarajevo water supply network
The reconstruction of the water supply network in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, is financed with a EUR 25 million sovereign loan provided to the Sarajevo Canton Water and Wastewater Company by European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). The loan agreement was signed today on the final day of the EBRD 2017 Annual […]