Heating on biomass employs domestic resources
Gradiška municipality in Bosnia and Herzegovina utilizes biomass for district heating since last year through a concession, proving that the technology increases energy independence, stimulates employment and attracts investment, while cutting carbon dioxide emissions, participants at a regional workshop learned, Euractiv.rs reported. The event named ‘How to Strengthen the Usage of Bioenergy in the Balkans […]
Co-funding for solar systems in summer pasture lands
After the deadline has been postponed by three days, invitation was closed for offers in a public procurement for purchase and installation of photovoltaic panels and equipment in summer pasture lands, according to the Directorate for Energy Efficiency. Montenegro’s Ministry of Economy and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development have continued with the implementation […]
Environment commissioner seeks green Christmas
All local authorities received a letter, urging them to go green this Christmas, from the national environment commissioner Ioanna Panayiotou, Cyprus Mail reported. She said local self-government in Cyprus needs to keep energy-wasting decorations to a minimum. “Due to the economic crisis, thousands of our fellow citizens are deprived of the essentials and are experiencing […]
Greece taken to court over energy performance
The European Commission said it has decided to refer Greece to the Court of Justice of the European Union over the government’s failure to comply with the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, as the only member state that did not perform the cost-optimal calculations and did not send a report. According to the directive, minimum […]
Action plan for Belgrade won’t remain on paper
Citizens will be informed every year on the implementation of measures from the Assessment of Vulnerability to Climate Change and the Action Plan for Adaptation, Belgrade city manager Goran Vesić said at the presentation of the document. He underscored the authorities will not let the plan become a dead letter. Vesić reminded that Belgrade’s assembly […]
Panels cover up to 3,000 hectares of arable land
There hasn’t been a very large impact and a high rate of occupancy of agricultural land by photovoltaics, according to Zoltán Nagy-Bege from the Regulatory Authority for Energy (ANRE), who insisted this was his personal opinion, Nine o’Clock.ro reported. „For the time being, we have a little over 1,200 MW installed in photovoltaics, which means […]
Energy Union report outlines national challenges
Bulgaria’s complex issues in the energy sector and lack of reforms had “compromised the financial stability of public and private stakeholders”, the European Union said in its first State of the Energy Union report, Sofia Globe revealed. The document, first of its kind, comes nine months after the EU adopted an Energy Union framework strategy […]
IC İçtaş acquires Kadıncık hydropower plants
At a cost of TRY 864 million (EUR 283 million), hydro systems Kadıncık 1 and Kadıncık 2, located in Mersin in the south of the country, were bought at a tender by IC İçtaş Energy Investment Holding, Anadolu Agency’s Energy Terminal said. The installed capacity is 70 MW in Kadıncık 1 and 56 MW in […]