Bridge and road will lead to future HPP site
On Lim river near the town of Rudo in eastern Bosnia, the construction of a bridge has started downstream from the dam. The 72 metres long object will be used for the needs of run-on-river hydropower plant Mrsovo, agency Srna said. Dragan Čvor, lead engineer in Comsar Energy’s project, said the works are on schedule. […]
China Development Bank would back geothermal projects
Beijing Explo-Tech Engineering Co. Ltd. (Betec) is interested in exploiting geothermal energy in Vranje and Kuršumlija in southern Serbia, and in building a thermal power plant, the representatives of the company from China said at a meeting with president Tomislav Nikolić. Beta news agency reported the potential investors said the power plant construction should start by […]
EPS completes its organizational changes
Status changes from July 1 in the Electric Power Industry of Serbia (EPS) are the biggest organizational changes in the last two decades, the company’s newspaper EPS Energija said. Instead of 14 entities, the system now consists of three. After the restructuring programme was adopted by the Government of Serbia in November, the process started […]
Electric car, buses, charger stations introduced
The northern Croatian Town of Koprivnica presented its two electric minibuses, first zero emissions public transport vehicles in the country, the municipal website said. The purchase was organized within electromobility project Civitas Dyn@mo, the biggest and most demanding that this local authority participates in. Koprivnica funded the endeavour with EUR 920,000 and the European Union […]
Exergy commissions low enthalpy geothermal plant
Italian organic Rankine cycle (ORC) turbines manufacturer Exergy has begun operations at a new 4 MW low enthalpy geothermal plant in Denizli region in Turkey’s southwest, Energy Business Review reported. The company has completed ORC binary installation, making the Akça plant the world’s first facility to be equipped with a 2-pressure-level cycle on a single-disk […]
Utility pays eight municipalities EUR 6.1 million
Bosnian power utility Elektroprivreda HZHB said it paid eight local municipalities a total of BAM 12 million (EUR 6.1 million) in the first half of the year in compensation for using their hydroelectric storage facilities, SeeNews reported. The company is legally obliged to redirect a portion of its revenues from the use of storage facilities, […]
Third stage of Zakučac HPP’s overhaul completed
Croatian state-owned power utility HEP said the third unit of the country’s biggest hydropower plant entered test production after an overhaul. Works on 486 MW Zakučac facility, located in Dalmatia, aim to increase overall capacity by 52 MW, enabling yearly generation to soar by 58 GWh, portal Energetika-net reported. The result in 2013 was 2.13 […]
Kajkut Energy plans to build a SHPP in Despotovac
Municipality of Despotovac confirmed to Tanjug news agency that Kajkut Energy DOO, registered in Belgrade, plans to construct a mini hydropower plant on Resava river. The facility is planned to have a capacity of 700 kW and it will be located in the area of Stenjevac village, on the slopes of Beljanica mountain, the report […]