Electricity

A business plan being drafted by the management of majority state-owned Public Power Corporation (PPC) includes a “sweeping divestment” of its coal power plants in Greece, Ekathimerini writes. The plan…

Montenegro’s state power utility Elektroprivreda Crne Gore (EPCG) has signed a EUR 33 million loan agreement with German development bank KfW for Phase II of a project to overhaul and…

Slovenian power transmission system operator (TSO) ELES and electricity trader GEN-I have signed an agreement to form a consortium that will seek to accelerate the Slovenian energy sector’s green transformation…

Author: Goran Granić, director of Energy Institute Hrvoje Požar The energy sectors of all countries are facing a great challenge, a transition amid continuous reduction in CO2 emissions, which is…

Concrete blocks and cranes, that is all that you need to store electricity. How? Simple. The crane is using excess energy from renewables to lift concrete blocks and when the…

Czech energy company CEZ has officially launched the divestment process in Romania, offering seven companies in the country including Europe’s largest on-shore wind park Fantanele-Cogealac, with 600 MW of installed…

Five EU countries including the UK, Germany, Greece, Poland, and Slovenia are looking to introduce new fossil fuel subsidies by 2030, an analysis of the 28 Member States’ draft energy…

The Croatian Hydrocarbon Agency (CHA) has announced a public call to select the best bid for geothermal energy exploration in the Križevci exploration area, for the purpose of issuing an…

Zagreb-based MB Geothermal, wholly-owned by Turkish MB Holding, has signed a contract with Croatian engineering firm Ekonerg to design a binary (ORC) geothermal power plant called Legrad, with an installed…

Italian energy company Enel has initiated the sale of its assets in Romania, Reuters has reported. Just a week ago Romanian state-owned power utility Hidroelectrica invited bids to select an…

Slovenia’s state power utility Holding Slovenske Elektrarne (HSE) has appointed new top managers at two of its subsidiaries – Termoelektrarna Šoštanj, which operates the Šoštanj thermal power plant (TEŠ), and…

Tendering for the construction of solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants with a combined installed capacity of 35 MW on state land, backed by feed-in premiums approved by the Government of…