Slovenia declares drinking water a basic human right in constitution
Slovenian parliament voted for a constitutional amendment to declare the access to drinking water a basic human right. The move has rendered any privatisation of water resources impossible, since the resources will be managed by the state. Slovenian parliament has adopted an amendment to Constitution of the Republic of Slovenia on November 17, which declared water […]
Prince of Jordan interested in investing in solar in BIH
Prince of Jordan Mohammed al-Abbas Bin Ali is interested in investing in solar energy in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Accompanied by his several advisors and two businessmen from Libya, Mohammed al-Abbas Bin Ali visited Foreign Investment Promotion Agency of BiH (FIPA), the Agency announced. The Deputy Director of the FIPA Blaženka Mišković and her associates […]
Turkish authorities approve five Exergy geothermal units in just five days
Italian energy equipment manufacturer Exergy S.p.A. managed to win approval from Turkish authorities for five different geothermal units in five days. The manufacturer of the radial outflow turbine technology said that the Turkish Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources declared that geothermal facilities named Kubilay I, Mehmet Han, Ken Kipas, Umurlu II and Sultanhisar I […]
Skopje as host city of the training on MVP
The Centre for Energy Efficiency of Macedonia (MACEF) hosted on November 9 in Skopje the 4th Partner Meeting of the consortium of the Facilitating multi-level governance in energy efficiency (multEE) project. The meeting brought together important partners from EU and non-EU countries. The following day the Training on the System for Monitoring and Verification (MVP) […]
Biomass conference SEE Energy – Connect & Supply 2016 held in Novi Sad
The utilization of renewable energy sources in Serbia has been on the rise in recent years, but huge biomass potential to generate heat and electrical energy is still far from being fully exploited. This is the main message sent from the international conference “SEE Energy – Connect & Supply 2016” held in Novi Sad and […]
Waste-to-energy plant to be built in Albania
Albanian Ministry of Environment has concluded a contract deal with the privately owned company Integrated Technology Waste Treatment Fier to build waste-to-energy (WtE) plant near the city of Fier. The project worth EUR 27.7 million will be operated by the company which is a subsidiary of Integrated Technology Services and the WtE plant will be […]
More bids expected for Morača HPPs construction
Montenegrin Ministry of Economy expects that it will get more offers for the construction of hydropower plants (HPPs) on the river Morača. So far, several memorandums of understanding have been signed and the investors interested in the Morača HPPs construction project are from China, Turkey and Slovenia, the daily Vijesti reported. One of the companies […]
SUSI finances GGE’s energy efficiency portfolio in Slovenia
SUSI Energy Efficiency Fund enters the SEE region and finances a major energy efficiency portfolio with GGE in Slovenia. The SUSI Energy Efficiency Fund (SEEF) has acquired a portfolio of energy efficiency projects from GGE d.o.o. (GGE), one of the leading energy service companies (ESCO) in South-East Europe. The transaction is structured as a sale […]