BiH to change environmental permits of two new power plants to comply with EU’s Directive
The Energy Community Secretariat and authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina agreed to amend the environmental permits of thermal power plants (TPP) Banovići and Tuzla 7 in order to comply with the European Union’s Industrial Emissions Directive (IED). The environmental permits were the subject of cases ECS-16/16 and ECS-17/16 against Bosnia and Herzegovina regarding incompliance with […]
Croatian Government appointed new HEP’s Supervisory Board
General Shareholders Assembly of the public power utility Hrvatska elektroprivreda (HEP) elected new Supervisory Board, company said in a statement. The General Shareholders Assembly, chaired by Minister of Finance Zdravko Marić, at the proposal of the Croatian Government, revoked the old and appointed new members of HEP d.d. Supervisory Board. Old members were Nikola Bruketa, […]
EPS announced revitalization of hydroelectric power plant Đerdap 2
Public power utility “Elektroprivreda Srbije” (EPS) intends to conduct the overhaul of 10 units of hydroelectric power plant (HPP) Đerdap 2 in 10 years, which will result in plant’s lifespan extending and capacity increasing by 50 MW. HPP Đerdap 2 was put into operation 32 years ago and has installed capacity is 270 MW. Acting […]
TENT A – Work on flue gas desulfurization systems has started
Work on a flue gas desulfurization (FGD) systems in the Nikola Tesla A coal-fired power plant (TENT A) in Obrenovac, Serbia, has started. The goal is to reduce sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions. The Serbian minister of mining and energy Aleksandar Antić expects work to be finished by the end of 2022. The EUR 167 million […]
Montenegro’s RAE becomes first Energy Community regulator to join ACER’s working groups
The Montenegro Energy Regulatory Agency (RAE) fulfilled a strict criteria, including compliance with the Third Energy Package and regulatory independence, for the participation of its experts in the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators’ (ACER) working groups as of January 2018. RAE is the first national regulator from the Energy Community (EnC) Contracting Parties […]
Jelena Matejić appointed General Manager of Serbian TSO Elektromreža Srbije
The Serbian government appointed Jelena Matejic as the General Manager of the state-owned Joint Stock Company Elektromreža Srbije (EMS), after almost a year of performing the function of acting Manager of the company, Serbia’s electricity transmission system operator (TSO) EMS said in a statement. “She was elected in a public competition organized by the government […]
Energy Community chief to visit Kosovo*, Serbia, Albania in December
Janez Kopač, Director of the Energy Community (EnC) Secretariat, will visit the parliaments of Kosovo*, Serbia and Albania in December to present the key findings of the Secretariat’s 2017 Annual Implementation Report while Macedonian parliament is planned for early next year, Energy Community Secretariat told for Balkan Green Energy News portal. On 12th December, Kopač […]
Households in Serbia and Kosovo* paid the lowest energy prices in Western Balkans
Households electricity prices in Serbia and Kosovo* are the lowest in the Western Balkans region, though both countries had the highest increase between the first half of the 2016 and first half of this year, the Eurostat data showed. Expressed in euro, the average electricity price per 100 kWh in the 1st half of 2017 […]