Electricity
ERS to introduce incentives for households to install solar panels
07 April 2022 - State-owned power utility Elektroprivreda Republike Srpske is developing a program for subsidizing households to become prosumers
Lager from Posušje to install wind farm Gradina in BiH
07 April 2022 - It will be its second wind farm in the region, after 142 MW Krš-Pađene, built not far from Knin in Croatia
Hellenic Petroleum inaugurates Europe’s biggest solar park with two-sided panels
06 April 2022 - Oil refiner Hellenic Petroleum put the largest solar park in Greece into operation while PM Mitsotakis said coal output must jump 50%
Montenegro demands Bileća lake water, electricity from BiH, Croatia
06 April 2022 - The Government of Montenegro has decided to initiate a procedure to determine its share of water and hydropower from the Bileća lake in BiH
Slovenia, Croatia launch trial operation of joint 50 MWh battery storage
06 April 2022 - The Sincro.Grid project passed another milestone with the start of the trial operation of two battery storage units with 10 MW in total power
Revised Fit for 55: Preliminary goals show more renewables, nuclear, coal – much less natural gas
06 April 2022 - The revision of the Fit for 55 energy package calls for more renewables, coal and nuclear in order to offset a great reduction in natural gas
EPS to import coal from Montenegro
05 April 2022 - Serbia's power utility Elektroprivreda Srbije (EPS) will purchase coal from Montenegro’s Pljevlja Coal Mine
Environmentalists oppose lignite mine projects in North Macedonia
05 April 2022 - The general manager of state-owned utility ESM said it would open two lignite mines, which...
Greece has biggest combined share of wind, solar in electricity generation in SEE
04 April 2022 - Greece is eighth in the world by the share of wind and solar in electricity generation and Croatia came in seventh in the bioenergy section
Rizvanolli: No new coal plants in Kosovo’s* draft energy strategy
04 April 2022 - There are no plans for a new coal-fired thermal power plant in Kosovo*, but the existing two require investments
Slovenia, Serbia to establish first regional power exchange ADEX
04 April 2022 - ADEX shares will be owned equally by Slovenia's TSO ELES, Serbia's TSO EMS and the EU's power exchange EPEX SPOT
EPCG to start reconstruction of TPP Pljevlja by end of April
01 April 2022 - The EUR 54 million contract for the reconstruction was signed with the consortium DEC International-Bemax-BB Solar-Permonte
Croatia publishes auction rules for premiums for large power plants
01 April 2022 - Premiums will be granted for solar power plants, wind farms, geothermal, biogas, and biomass power plants, as well as hydropower plants
First commercial prosumer signs contract in Serbia
31 March 2022 - Electricity consumers in Serbia finally have all the conditions to produce electricity for self-consumption
Ember: Wind, solar top 10% for first time in global electricity output in 2021
30 March 2022 - Wind and solar, the fastest-growing sources of electricity, reached a record share of 10.3% in supply last year, Ember found
INA kicks off wind measurements on its gas platforms in Adriatic Sea
30 March 2022 - The Croatian oil and gas company began to measure wind potential for offshore wind farms in the Adriatic Sea