Balkan Green Energy News

27 April 2021 - The EU is introducing a taxonomy that companies and investors will be required to use when talking about investments in green projects.

26 April 2021 - Save the Blue Heart of Europe is promoting a legal toolkit to help activists and civil society organizations protect rivers from hydropower development.

26 April 2021 - Nemanja Mikać: integrating energy storage into solar and wind would ensure the cheapest electricity on the market and facilitate the energy transition.

23 April 2021 - North Macedonia’s national electricity market operator, MEMO, and Montenegro’s power exchange operator, BELEN, have launched tendering for day-ahead trading platforms.

22 April 2021 - After the transitional period of market premiums, solar will become the main driver of electricity market liquidity in Serbia, says CWP Global's Maja Turković.

21 April 2021 - The Energy Community has launched an infringement procedure against Montenegro for continuing to operate TPP Pljevlja despite the expiry of the opt-out period.

21 April 2021 - Croatia and Albania are the region's best ranked countries on the World Economic Forum's Energy Transition Index 2021.

16 April 2021 - Two Romanian businessmen have obtained a permit to build a 393 MW wind farm in Constanta County in eastern Romania.

15 April 2021 - Serbia's distribution system operator will draft new rules to enable a fast-track procedure for connecting household rooftop solar systems to the grid.

15 April 2021 - Big solar-thermal projects are the right solution for district heating decarbonization in Serbia.

09 April 2021 - Governments and renewable energy developers in Southeast Europe should work with environmental NGOs and local communities from the get-go, Željka Frištek and Dragana Mileusnić wrote

02 April 2021 - An effective system for guarantees of origin could support the energy transition and boost renewable energy investments within the Energy Community, writes Naida Taso from the Energy Community Secretariat

31 March 2021 - The Austrian government published the Renewable Energy Expansion Act , which is now subject to deliberation and approval by the Austrian parliament

30 March 2021 - Professor Neven Duić in an interview with Balkan Green Energy News talks about the energy transition in Croatia.

26 March 2021 - IRENA says Albania could significantly improve energy security and resilience to climate change by tapping on solar and wind potentials.

22 March 2021 - The City of Kragujevac understood energy efficiency doesn't only bring budget savings but that it enables environmental protection and job creation