Green Home files criminal complaint over Bijelo Polje SHPP plan
Environmentalist organization Green Home has said it raised a criminal case with the Supreme State Prosecution Office of Montenegro against officials it claims are responsible for abuse of power in the procedure of project development for small hydropower plant Lještanica. Decision makers from the departments for spatial planning and rural and sustainable development in Bijelo […]
Hidroelectrica initiates takeover of ČEZ, Enel’s facilities in Romania
The management of Speeh Hidroelectrica SA requested the goahead from shareholders to hire consultants and lawyers in the procedure it started with the aim to acquire assets from ČEZ Group and Enel SpA, counting on them divesting in Romania. The extraordinary meeting is scheduled for December 12. The hydropower plant operator also asked for a […]
Public call for local projects near wind park Kovačica to expire on Dec. 15
Electrawinds K-Wind Doo is preparing to analyze applications by nonprofits from Kovačica, in a rare program for local support. The operator of the largest wind park in Serbia, located north of capital Belgrade, is granting as much as EUR 5,000 per project. Organizations active in the municipality can fill the form by December 15 for […]
Radojičić: Belgrade to subsidize up to 90% of buildings refurbishment
Serbia’s capital city will introduce the measures from the strategy for district heating next year, right after it is adopted, according to Zoran Radojičić. Belgrade will thus continue to cut the use of polluting fuel, the mayor noted. In his words, carried by the local authority’s website, in 2019 its management established “firm foundations” of […]
Italy-Montenegro yearly capacity auction offer lands at 140 MW
Following the launch of the interconnection across the Adriatic Sea, the Coordinated Auction Office in South East Europe or SEE CAO started the auction process for 2020 by offering the capacity of 140 MW in both ways. The operator received bids for the allocation of physical transmission rights (PTRs). After the announcement of the provisional […]
China inks first deal for three HPPs in Srpska in BiH worth EUR 100 million
Prime minister of the Republic of Srpska Radovan Višković has reached the initial agreement on installing three hydropower plants on the Bistrica river with 45 MW in combined capacity. AVIC-ENG – China National Aero-technology International Engineering Corp. accepted the assignment and its chairman Suo Shuhe signed the agreement. During a working visit to the world’s […]
Resalta to run heating in S. Mitrovica Penitentiary, retrofit system
Resalta d.o.o. is launching a public-private partnership (PPP) in the field of energy efficiency with the Sremska Mitrovica Correctional Institution. The contract was signed on November 22 by Aleksandar Alimpić, the institution’s manager, and Ankica Barbulov, the company’s director for Serbia. The penitentiary was built at the behest of the Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph from […]
Renewables, power storage are Kosovo’s* best choice: World Bank study
The most affordable strategy for the government in Prishtina would be to phase out coal-fueled power production, according to a previously unseen document that the United States–based Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis or IEEFA has reviewed. The World Bank apparently concluded in August of last year that ContourGlobal Plc’s plan for to build […]