Luče in Slovenia gets power storage in EU-backed project
Fuel retailer and energy services company Petrol mounted three household batteries in the municipality of Luče. The University of Ljubljana is the coordinator in Compile project, which brought the power storage solutions to the test site. A community battery is being installed in a village northeast of Ljubljana, close to the border with Austria. Engineers […]
Energy Community Summer School in Czechia open for applications
The Masaryk University Centre in Telč will host the fifth annual Energy Community Summer School. The international institution called on postgraduate students, researchers from all energy-related disciplines and young people working in governmental institutions, companies, think tanks and the civil society sector to apply for the lectures and social and cultural activities. The event is […]
Register for Trebinje Energy Summit – SET 2020
Power utility Elektroprivreda Republike Srpske (ERS), the City of Trebinje and SET Trebinje, which are organizing Trebinje Energy Summit – SET 2020, have announced that the event will bring together a large number of decision makers from governments and energy companies from the region, as well as from international financial institutions. The summit will have […]
China’s CMEC to make main Belgrade wastewater treatment unit, sewage
Serbia’s capital city signed a cooperation agreement with China Machinery Engineering Corp. for the intended financing of research and design of a system for the collection and treatment of wastewater. A separate deal is authorizing CMEC to start the preparatory activity for the project, estimated at up to EUR 771 million in total. The first […]
EU lifts green investment target by EUR 260 billion per year by 2030
The Sustainable Europe Investment Plan will mobilize at least EUR 1 trillion in the next decade, the European Commission has said. The so-called Just Transition Mechanism, which is being set up by the EU with the responsibility for the green investment part worth EUR 100 billion from 2021 to 2027, comes with a support fund […]
GGF celebrates ten-year anniversary, EUR 1 billion in climate finance
The Green for Growth Fund said it has marked ten years since establishment. The ceremony in Frankfurt was hosted by its advisor Finance in Motion, GGF added. It also pointed out its green finance portfolio reached EUR 1 billion. The number of clients in Southeast Europe, the Caucasus, the Middle East, and North Africa surpassed […]
Croatia’s HEP starts construction of 150 MW CCPP unit
State-owned power utility Hrvatska Elektroprivreda (HEP) has officially started the construction of a new gas-fired combined cycle power plant (CCPP) unit at the EL-TO Zagreb combined heat and power (CHP) site. The HRK 900 million (EUR 120.7 million) unit with a power output of 150 MW and heat output of 114 MW is scheduled to […]
Dubrovnik installs heating, cooling on seawater in four buildings
The heating and cooling system in the Rector’s Palace or Knežev dvor has been finished. It also covers the city hall, movie theater Sloboda and the Marin Držić theater, according to an update on Dubrovnik’s official web page. Works were financed from the Seadrion project, in which Dubrovnik Development Agency, DURA, participated. It was backed […]