Smart cities from French companies’ perspective
It is estimated that 7 billion people will be living in the cities by 2050. The only way to make this possible and sustainable is to develop smart cities, according to the participants of B2B event organised in Belgrade last week by the French-Serbian Chamber of Commerce. Leading French companies in the field of energy, […]
GEN-I Sonce step towards energy independence
The Slovenian company GEN-I presented their new service GEN-I Sonce (Sun) which allows households and small businesses to build micro solar power plants on a “turnkey” basis. The GEN-I Sonce service is the first of its kind in Slovenia and it should enable citizens and businesses to make an environmental, sustainable and economically viable transition […]
EFdeN – Solar house and status of prosumers in Romania
By Mihai Toader-Pasti and Claudiu Butacu, co-founders energiaTa and EFdeN EFdeN is one of Europe’s most sustainable houses. It is situated in Bucharest, the capital of Romania. The house has been developed by a passionate team of students, who participated in the third European edition of the Solar Decathlon competition, which took place in 2014 […]
Auctions for renewables: towards markets proximity
The future of support mechanisms for renewables with targeted insight towards the SEE markets and bankability point of view By Ladislav Tolmaci, Erste Group Bank AG, Leveraged and Project Finance In the recent depressed wholesale power price environment predominant on the European commodity exchanges, any investment into electricity generating technology becomes related to a question […]
Bulgarian and Chinese companies to build waste-to-energy plants in UK
The Bulgarian-based company Ebioss Energy signed a deal with Energy China to build two waste-to-energy plants in the UK worth EUR 170 million in total. The waste-to-energy plants will be located in Newcastle and Hull, United Kingdom, Ebioss Energy stated in the press release published on the Spanish alternative stock exchange MAB where it is […]
EBRD supports leading Slovenian street light company’s projects
Slovenian street lighting and energy services company Javna razsvetljava d.d. (JRL) has received an approval from the major creditor for its projects in the nine cities across the country. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) reported that Javna razsvetljava’s projects have passed concept review. The EBRD has been looking into plans of the […]
Enel to invest EUR 200 million in digitalisation in Romania
Italian energy company Enel announced plans to invest EUR 200 million in network and equipment digitalisation in Romania, for the 2017-2019 period, according to the newly unveiled business strategy. As a part of a wide corporate changes, Enel Group announced it will invest as much as EUR 4.7 billion in digitalisation of its asset base, […]
Ecopack Bulgaria’s new glass sorting installation launched
The waste recovering company Ecopack Bulgaria began using the new equipment for sorting glass packaging by colour. The new installation, worth 2.5 million levs (EUR 1.28 million) is able to sort through 100 tonnes of glass packaging every day. The equipment was installed in the Ecopack’s facility in the village of Ravno Pole, 10 kilometres […]