MEPSO and Siemens sign contract for Dubrovo substation revitalization
Electricity Transmission System Operator of Macedonia (MEPSO) and the consortium of Siemens and SisKon have signed a contract on revitalization of Dubrovo 400/110kV substation, worth EUR 4.6 million. With this project MEPSO starts new investment cycle in revitalization of the network, worth more than EUR 50 million. At the signing of ceremony held last week […]
Paris Agreement causes disagreements in Montenegro over Pljevlja TPP
The ratification and drafting of a law to implement the Paris Agreement on climate change has caused a public debate in Montenegro over whether the agreement will or won’t endanger the construction of a new block at the country’s only coal-powered plant in Plevlja. The government says the agreement poses no danger to the reconstruction […]
45 MW Brežice hydropower plant on river Sava inaugurated
The Brežice hydropower plant (HPP), the largest and fifth in the chain of six hydroelectric power plants on the lower Sava river, in Slovenia, was inaugurated last week. According to the Slovenian media, the construction costs are estimated at EUR 261 million. The construction of 45 MW HPP was launched in March 2014. It is […]
Vinča PPP signed to solve biggest environmental problem in Serbia, region
Following an international tender, an agreement on a public private partnership (PPP) was signed by the Belgrade city authorities and a consortium of the French Suez groupe and Japanese Itochu I-Environment to implement a 25-year project to develop a system to treat municipal waste of Belgrade. The agreement calls for closing and remediation of one […]
Court unblocks A2A shares in Montenegrin power company EPCG
The High Court in Podgorica has decided to unblock shares of Italian company A2A in Montenegrin power company, Elektroprivreda Crne Gore (EPCG). The court previously blocked the shares of A2A over a proceeding against several former EPCG managers. Montenegrin media reported that the chamber presided over by the president of the Higher Court in Podgorica, […]
Central and South-Eastern European countries expand cooperation in energy sector
Central and South-Eastern European countries, including 9 EU Member States and 8 Energy Community Contracting Parties, have expanded their cooperation in the field of energy under the CESEC initiative to include electricity, energy efficiency and renewable energy. To that end, a memorandum of understanding was signed yesterday at the ministerial meeting in Bucharest. Ministers of […]
Croatian Fermopromet opened biogas power plant in Bačka Topola
The Croatian company Fermopromet opened a 2 MW biogas power plant outside the town of Bačka Topola in Vojvodina in the presence of Serbian Mining and Energy Minister Aleksandar Antić. The electricity production facility will produce power using byproducts from the company’s own agricultural production and waste generated by local industrial facilities. Serbian media reported […]
Norwegian power group Statkraft selling Cetin hydropower plant to Turkish Limak Enerji
The Turkish power company Limak Enerji has bought the partly constructed Cetin hydropower plant from the Norwegian energy group Statkraft, the Turkish Anadolu news agency reported on it Energy Terminal site quoting Norwegian company officials. Statkraft said security concerns caused it decide to pull out of the hydropower plant project on the Botan river, which […]