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 […]
Nexans to begin laying cable to Syros under Aegean Sea
Top officials from the Independent Power Transmission Operator SA (IPTO or ADMIE) of Greece and contractor Nexans SA, based in France, announced yesterday in Lavrion port that boats are about to start rolling out the electric cable in the third phase of establishing an interconnection with Cyclades Islands. The first, 28-kilometre section of the submarine […]
Damage from small hydropower is much larger than gains, study finds
The Balkans and Turkey are examples of how quickly free-flowing rivers and river stretches “can be degraded by being turned into impoundments,” World Wide Fund for Nature warned after publishing a study it commissioned together with RiverWatch, Geota and EuroNatur. Environmentalists said hydropower puts “tremendous pressure on Europe’s biodiversity, and for specific projects a disregard […]
Giant Belgrade mural calls for protection of eastern imperial eagle in Serbia
Petar Popović Piros has painted a noble bird on a wall in Dorćol neighbourhood, near the centre of Serbia’s capital city. The eastern imperial eagle is on the brink of disappearance in the Balkan country. The mural’s author highlighted the efforts by the Bird Protection and Study Society of Serbia to protect the aquila heliaca, […]
Viessmann: Let’s donate White Friday profits to polio, palsy patients
Instead of Black Friday, Viesmann DOO announced its second humanitarian White Friday. The maker of heating boilers, heat pumps and cooling systems said it would, instead of opting for sales and discounts, give away all the profit made on December 6 to people suffering from polio and cerebral palsy. It has also invited all companies […]
Priboj in Serbia covers 80% of residential building refurbishment
Saša Vasilić, deputy mayor of the Municipality of Priboj, said the local authorities provided RSD 10 million (EUR 85,000) for energy efficiency measures in residential structures. Five buildings are being renewed in the old part of the town of the same name, where subsidies account for 80%, he noted. The official from southwestern Serbia stressed […]
