Solarizing will help Greece overcome its troubles
With energy poverty emerging as one of the most dramatic symptoms of the recession – six out of every 10 households are struggling to pay their energy bills – it is high time that Greece seized upon its greatest and still largely unexploited asset, said Kumi Naidoo, executive director of environmentalist pressure group Greenpeace International, […]
Wind projects soon to be linked to mainland grid
The upgrade of the power network serving Evia is expected to boost wind park investments in the island’s south, and in the nearby islands of Andros and Tinos. Permits for the areas are more than a decade old, but there was no solution for transmission, Energy Press reported. IPTO, the power grid operator, announced in […]
Contracts for 10 hydroelectric plants in preparation
According to an announcement by the Privatization Administration (ÖİB), ten hydropower facilities owned by government-controlled Electricity Generation Company (Elektrik Üretim AŞ) are to be sold in five groups. The notice published in the Official Gazette on July 28 said that a sealed-bid auction is planned, Daily Sabah’s portal said. Karacaören 1 and Karacaören 2 form […]
European energy performance contracting cooperation
Project EnPC-Intrans, aiming to increase the capacity for performance contracting on the municipal level, successfully started in nine European countries, the Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities (SKGO) of Serbia said. Energy performance contracting (EPC) is an essential instrument for the improvement of energy efficiency in municipal buildings and services, according to the press release, […]
Mecasolar supplies equipment to solar plant
Photovoltaic facility in Prahova of 108 kW had two-axis trackers delivered by Mecasolar (Mecanizados Solares SL), which said the plant is expected to have an annual output of 183.000 Kwh and save 90 tons of emissions. It features eight 13.15 kW trackers and more than 432 modules. Solar trackers are capable of increasing photovoltaic solar […]
Investors want to block new green energy projects
Investors in the renewable energy sector asked the government to temporarily suspend the accreditations for new renewable energy plants, Romania Insider reports. In an open letter sent to prime minister Victor Ponta, energy minister Andrei Dominic Gerea and energy authority ANRE, four renewable energy producers’ organizations have asked for urgent measures in order to avoid […]
Grants paid for energy efficiency in public buildings
Nenad Stanković, energy and mining secretary of Serbia’s Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, signed contracts with users of secretariat’s incentives from grants programmes for co-financing efficient indoor lighting and energy efficiency measures in public institutions. The funds for indoor lighting are intended for entities in the fields of education, science, culture, physical culture, pupils’ and students’ […]
Venture company will construct CHP plant in Foča
Municipal Assembly of Foča, located in the Republic of Srpska in the southeastern part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, adopted a document about establishing a limited liability company (DOO) Energana-Foča in collaboration with Energo Alfa Prague SRO from the Czech Republic. Partners plan to construct a combined heat and power (CHP) plant in Brod na Drini […]