Statkraft opened its first hydropower plant in Albania
Statkraft officially opened 73 MW hydropower plant Banja on Friday, September 23. It is the first of the two hydropower plants by Norwegian company in Albania being constructed as part of the 256 MW Devoll hydro power project due for completion in 2018. Power stations, Banja and Moglicë, are located on the Devoll river, in […]
Ebioss bringing biomass CHP plant online with EVN
An agreement on linking a renewable energy unit to the grid was signed this week by Ebioss Energy a.d., headquartered in Sofia, and EVN Bulgaria, subsidiary of Austrian EVN, SeeNews reported. The biomass-fuelled cogeneration plant is in the town of Karlovo, north of Plovdiv, the country’s second-largest city. “After various changes in the energy law […]
Ministry continues municipal energy efficiency projects
Aleksandar Antić (first from left), minister of mining and energy, signed agreements with representatives of 15 local authorities on allocation of RSD 125 million (EUR 1.01 million) from the budget fund for energy efficiency measures. The endeavour is expected to result in EUR 243,000 or up to 4 GWh in annual savings, he told municipal […]
IFC comes on board for wind farms in BiH
A renewable energy company in Bosnia and Herzegovina is developing two wind farms in cooperation with the International Financing Corporation. Energy 3 d.o.o. sought advisory services in the areas of market risk assessment and electricity selling options and price forecasts for Pločno and Podveležje power plant projects, with coverage of regulatory risk. IFC said the facilities with a capacity of 48 MW […]
Tendering for Rijeka district heating project expected in 2016
Energo d.o.o., utility operating in Rijeka, will use proceeds of a loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development for a EUR 6.15 million project to improve district heating in Croatia’s third-biggest city. The project includes the rehabilitation of the network, the construction of a new power plant, installation of gas-fired boilers, and supply […]
Romania’s energy consumption rose by 9.2 %
Romania’s total electric energy consumption in January – July period increased by 9.2 % compared to the same period last year, and reached 32181.7 million KWh, National Statistics Institute (INS) reported. Romania’s domestic energy production amounted to 11841.2 thousand toe, decreasing from 918.5 thousand toe compared to the same period the year before. At the […]
The unpaid health bill – how coal power plants in the Western Balkans make us sick
By Vlatka Matkovic Puljic, Health & Environment Alliance (HEAL), Health and Energy Officer, Balkan region, e-mail: vlatka@env-health.org According to the latest report of the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) health impacts of coal fired power stations in the Western Balkans (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia) create up to 8.5 EUR billion per year […]
Bulgaria to save 22.594 GWh by 2020
Bulgarian government has said it aims to increase energy saving to 22.594 Gwh by 2020 in comparison to quantity of sold energy between 2010 and 2012, SeeNews reported. With the expected saving amounting to 1.94 million tonnes of oil equivalent (TOE), Bulgaria is following rules for energy efficiency set by European Union’s 2012 Energy Efficiency […]