Kragujevac gets funding for recycling centre
Stana Božović, state secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection, Radomir Nikolić, mayor of Kragujevac, and Radoslav Matić, head of local waste utility JKP Čistoća, signed the annex of the contract on the construction and equipment of the city’s recycling centre. The project is worth RSD 45 million (EUR 373,300), Kanal 9 TV […]
Serbian, French companies promote low-carbon economy
To develop green economy means to adjust our energy production, adjust our settlements, our vehicles, our public facilities, our habits, in order to achieve more savings in energy and natural resources, said Christine Moro, Ambassador of France to Serbia. At an event in the country’s embassy in Belgrade about the possibilities of green economy for […]
Renexpo brings 70 exhibitors from 17 countries
At the two-day Second International Trade Fair and Conferences on Renewables and Energy Efficiency, 70 exhibitors from 17 countries presented their business programmes, products and services. Renexpo event in Sarajevo gathered experts, investors, representatives of international institutions, engineers, government and local officials, news portal Novo vrijeme said. „Renexpo fairs and conferences are business-to-business (B2B) and […]
Moderate progress made in tackling climate change
While primary consumption of energy stood in 2013 at its level from the early 1990s, renewables have increased their share in final energy consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions decreased over the same time period, Eurostat said in a special report on the occasion of the publication of the 2015 Energy, Transport and Environment statistical book […]
World Bank praises government for energy reforms
The World Bank has considered the reform in the energy sector in Albania as positive. This declaration was made by Ellen Goldstein, the head of the World Bank’s Southeast European office, in a meeting in Tirana with the Albanian energy minister Damian Gjiknuri, Independent Balkan News Agency reported. According to the ministry’s press release, Goldstein […]
Wind park ZD2P gets construction permit
Croatian company Kunovac has received a permit from the Ministry of Construction and Spatial Planning for its wind project with planned installed capacity of up to 48 MW, SeeNews reported. The construction of the power plant near the Adriatic town of Zadar, should be carried out in three phases – the first should see the […]
EBRD moves towards tender for Kostt upgrade
Kostt, the electricity transmission system operator (TSO) in Kosovo*, intends using the proceeds of a loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and development to enable achieving full compliance with the N-1 electricity transmission grid security criteria, the bank said on its website. This is a key technical requirement for Kostt to join the European […]
Turkish investor wins geothermal power plant deal
MB Holding has been awarded a contract to build a geothermal power plant with a capacity of 16.5 MW in Croatia, according to SeeNews. Turboden, Italian-based manufacturer of turbogenerators, said that in September it signed a deal with the company from Turkey which holds a permit from January to build Croatia’s first power generating facility […]