Government cancels contracts for 30 hydro plants
Licenses for the construction and use of 30 power plants throughout Albania were cancelled by the country’s government for their „failure to meet obligations,“ after members of the European Parliament called on it to reconsider the plans. Prime minister Edi Rama’s cabinet earlier scrapped several such systems that were approved in the last meetings of […]
Electricity to be produced from olive waste
Turkey’s oil producer and marketer Marmarabirlik is set to produce 2 million kWh of electricity from 4,000 tons of olive waste every year, Daily Sabah reported. Hidamet Asa, the company chairman, says that the two-year project, funded by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (Tübitak), is completed. According to him, treatment and energy […]
Environment Fund gets 10% from renewables incentives?
The Government of the Republic of Srpska, one of country’s two entities, adopted the Draft Bill on Renewable Energy Sources and Efficient Cogeneration stipulating that the Environment Fund shall get 10% instead of 5% from the money levied as incentives for generating power from renewable sources. The increase wouldn’t burden the consumers paying the fee, […]
Vinča landfill operator shall be selected by year’s end
The tender for Belgrade’s Vinča landfill shall be launched by July, said Goran Vesić, the city manager. The project for the facility, which handles around 1,500 tons of waste a day, began as early as in 2007, and it was restarted last year in collaboration with the World Bank, he added, and Tanjug agency reported. […]
Development banks adopt climate mitigation finance tracking
Several national and international development banks adopted common norms for tracking projects for the mitigation of climate change effects. Similar principles for tracking adaptation finance and leverage are being developed. The document was published on the Paris Climate Finance Forum. These institutions have been tracking climate finance for only a few years, and their methods […]
EIB approves EUR 70 million loan for SME projects in Montenegro
Investment and Development Fund (IRF) of Montenegro presented this year’s financial support and signed a contract with the European Investment Bank (EIB) for a EUR 70 million loan, part of which is intended for energy and environment. The event was attended by potential users of IRF’s loans, and Montenegrin prime minister Milo Đukanović told the audience […]
Stakeholders give their views on Energy Community’s future
The results of the public consultation which gathered stakeholders’ views on options for the implementation of proposals made by the High Level Reflection Group in its report ‘An Energy Community for the Future’ were published in mid-March, the Energy Community said. A total of 61 submissions were received from a wide mix of stakeholders, including […]
Impact study for hydro plants at Sutjeska blocked
Republika Srpska’s Ministry of Spatial Planning, Construction and Ecology blocked the process of approving the environmental impact study for small hydropower plants on Hrčavka river in the Sutjeska National Park, because the protected area’s spatial plan must be approved first, Energetika.ba portal said, citing Fena agency. Nataša Crnković from the Center for Environment in Banjaluka, […]
