08 June 2022 - The European Parliament rejected a set of law proposals within the Fit-for-55 climate package including the CBAM carbon border tax scheme
08 June 2022 - Kosovo* aims to boost its renewables capacity by 5.6 times within a decade to 1.4 GW including 100 MW from the prosumers segment
08 June 2022 - The Parliament of FBiH must ban small hydropower plants before the elections or the initiative may fail, environmentalist Anes Podić warns
07 June 2022 - A consortium will determine the best solutions for using gas, biomass and waste in defunct thermal power plant Plomin 1 in Croatia
06 June 2022 - Prime Minister Robert Golob promised everyone would take their fair share of the burden from rising food and energy prices
06 June 2022 - Reforms, subsidies and investments enabled the growth in capacity installed by prosumers last year in Romania by 424% to 85 MW.
03 June 2022 - Romania became more ambitious with its coal phaseout planning. It is pushing the deadline forward by two years, to 2030.
02 June 2022 - The Romanian association of energy suppliers says some of its members may cease operations amid a lack of compensation for energy price caps
02 June 2022 - Instruments like power purchase agreements are becoming more important as the energy market in the Western Balkans is opening up
01 June 2022 - Small modular reactors would create two to 30 times more nuclear waste per unit of energy than conventional nuclear plants, scientists found
01 June 2022 - It is forbidden to produce, import and sell disposable plastic bags in Albania including those that are defined as oxo-degradable or oxo-biodegradable
31 May 2022 - It's going to be a long winter in several Western Balkan countries as old coal-fired power plants are unreliable and lignite is scarce
30 May 2022 - European countries are canceling the closure of coal plants despite phaseout plans to prevent a collapse if Russia halts its gas deliveries
30 May 2022 - The local authority in Pirot in Serbia's southeast is working on solar power projects of all sizes and bringing investors to the sunny city
27 May 2022 - The EU allowed Romania to use its share of the Modernisation Fund for the makeover of coal plant owner CE Oltenia and the electricity grid
26 May 2022 - Bulgaria is introducing a law to eliminate the administrative procedure for renewables on buildings, as long as they are for own use