TENDERING: Albania seeks partners to create power exchange
Albania’s Ministry of Infrastructure and Energy has invited bids from the companies and financial institutions interested in becoming shareholders of the joint stock company which would operate the power exchange. Albania’s transmission system operator OST will control 35% of the shares of the new company – the Albanian Power Exchange (APEX), which will be financially […]
SET 2020: Investors interested in developing 3,000 MW of wind power projects in Serbia
Investors are currently interested in developing 3,000 MW of wind power projects in Serbia, Dragan Vlaisavljević, executive director for electricity trading at state power utility Elektroprivreda Srbije (EPS), said at a panel titled “Regional Energy Review – Development Perspectives” held as part of Trebinje Energy Summit – SET 2020. These 3,000 MW of wind power […]
SET 2020: Introduction of carbon tax in Western Balkans is inevitable
The construction of the seventh power generation unit at thermal power plant TPP Tuzla will be an economic disaster, Janez Kopač, director of the Energy Community Secretariat, told the Energy Sector Transition panel held as part of Trebinje Energy Summit – SET 2020. The reason for this, according to him, is the inevitable introduction of […]
Hidroelectrica should look into Black Sea offshore wind potential, minister says
Romania’s acting economy and energy minister Virgil Popescu has said the country’s state-owned hydropower producer Hidroelectrica should consider tapping the Black Sea offshore wind potential, local media have reported. No studies of he Black Sea offshore wind potential have been done so far, and the idea has not been publicly debated, although there is potential, […]
Trebinje Energy Summit – SET 2020 kicks off with over 400 participants
Investors expressed great interest in building solar power plants and wind parks in the Republic of Srpska, said Prime Minister Radovan Višković as he opened the two-day Trebinje Energy Summit – SET 2020. At the event’s opening ceremony in Cultural Center Trebinje there were more than 300 guests. More than 80 experts from the region […]
EPBiH gets acting chief, seeks candidates for new board
The Supervisory Board of power utility Elektroprivreda BiH (EPBiH) has removed the members of the Management Board due to the expiration of their term of office and it appointed new ones for a period of 90 days. The firm released a vacancy announcement for the new leadership of the company – the general manager and […]
HROTE, CROPEX making auctions of guarantees of origin more frequent
Volumes have strengthened since the start of the year amid a jump in production of power from renewable sources. The sale for the fourth quarter resulted in a total of 274,482 units changing hands at a marginal price of EUR 0.36 apiece compared to 899,199 guarantees of origin and EUR 0.48, respectively, for 2019 in […]
Environmental organizations ask EU to stop waste burning in coal power plants in Bulgaria
Environmental lawyers at ClientEarth, Greenpeace Bulgaria and Za Zemiata are bringing a legal complaint to the European Commission to compel EU authorities to investigate and order the alleged illegal waste incineration in Bulgaria to stop. Three organizations have taken action after the Bulgarian government secretly allowed three aging coal power plants to burn unclassified waste, […]