PM sees EU Green Deal taking out 40% of electricity capacity in Romania
Coal is doomed, the head of the government in Bucharest has told businesspeople and representatives of associations. Prime minister Ludovic Orban warned that decision makers have maybe ten years to find energy production solutions that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and hinted at the dependence on the fossil fuel for electricity in Romania. The European Union’s […]
Skopje, Tetovo trigger air pollution response measures
Local authorities in North Macedonia have started implementing the recommendations the government passed at the end of last year for cases of extreme air pollution. Skopje and Tetovo have just triggered the measures after official data showed the concentration of PM10 particulates was above 175 micrograms per cubic meter for two days in a row. […]
Energy Community Summer School in Czechia open for applications
The Masaryk University Centre in Telč will host the fifth annual Energy Community Summer School. The international institution called on postgraduate students, researchers from all energy-related disciplines and young people working in governmental institutions, companies, think tanks and the civil society sector to apply for the lectures and social and cultural activities. The event is […]
Belgrade sees EUR 6.5 billion in investments lowering pollution
Deputy mayor Goran Vesić has laid out a five-year plan to combat pollution in Serbia’s capital. Together with investments by the country’s government and other partners, spending in Belgrade comes in at EUR 6.5 billion. The sum for combating pollution includes EUR 3.86 billion projected for the first two lines of the city train, which […]
Startup iCat delivers third solar boat to Croatian national park
Mljet National Park now has three vessels for tourist rounds that don’t need fuel, where a photovoltaic system and batteries eliminate the need to charge during the summer. A Zagreb-based firm manufactures the solar boat with the help of a program funded by the EU. Diesel fuel is out in Mljet National Park, which received […]
Strabag, EPBiH both seek damages in arbitration over HPP Vranduk
Anonymous insiders from Elektroprivreda Bosne i Hercegovine revealed Strabag from Austria is seeking EUR 20.5 million for a hydropower project that essentially failed in 2016, Dnevni avaz wrote. News on the process initiated at the International Court of Arbitration in Brussels has been withheld for a while. At the same time, the utility based in […]
Interenergo commissions 10 MW wind farm in Croatia’s Jasenice
The head of the small municipality has explained local authorities lean on renewables for development. An equivalent wind farm should be added together with a 5 MW solar park, Martin Baričević said and pointed to the possibility to install a pumped storage hydropower facility and a gas-fueled power plant. Five turbines of 2 MW each […]
New thermal power plant feasibility studies understated TPP costs – report
Members of parliaments of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia have been deceived with “false information” when they adopted guarantees for two coal-burning blocks financed by China, according to documents seen by Unearthed. In feasibility studies for new thermal power plant projects Tuzla 7 and Kostolac B3, respectively, expenses for greenhouse gas emissions are strongly belittled […]