Building Energy to start biomass power project
The construction of a biomass power plant in Kruševac was announced by Building Energy from Italy and the City of Kruševac in central Serbia. First such project combining electric and thermal energy in the country will have an installed capacity of respectively 4.8 MW and 20 MW and will generate 38.4 GWh of electric power […]
Workshop held about one stop shops for green energy
With support from the Repower-Kosovo* project, funded by United States Agency for International Development (USAID), a workshop was organized on the establishment of a one stop shop to support the development of renewable energy sources projects, Ministry of Economic Development reported on its website. The event was held with the aim to present main challenges […]
Renexpo brings 70 exhibitors from 17 countries
At the two-day Second International Trade Fair and Conferences on Renewables and Energy Efficiency, 70 exhibitors from 17 countries presented their business programmes, products and services. Renexpo event in Sarajevo gathered experts, investors, representatives of international institutions, engineers, government and local officials, news portal Novo vrijeme said. „Renexpo fairs and conferences are business-to-business (B2B) and […]
Moderate progress made in tackling climate change
While primary consumption of energy stood in 2013 at its level from the early 1990s, renewables have increased their share in final energy consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions decreased over the same time period, Eurostat said in a special report on the occasion of the publication of the 2015 Energy, Transport and Environment statistical book […]
World Bank praises government for energy reforms
The World Bank has considered the reform in the energy sector in Albania as positive. This declaration was made by Ellen Goldstein, the head of the World Bank’s Southeast European office, in a meeting in Tirana with the Albanian energy minister Damian Gjiknuri, Independent Balkan News Agency reported. According to the ministry’s press release, Goldstein […]
Wind park ZD2P gets construction permit
Croatian company Kunovac has received a permit from the Ministry of Construction and Spatial Planning for its wind project with planned installed capacity of up to 48 MW, SeeNews reported. The construction of the power plant near the Adriatic town of Zadar, should be carried out in three phases – the first should see the […]
EBRD moves towards tender for Kostt upgrade
Kostt, the electricity transmission system operator (TSO) in Kosovo*, intends using the proceeds of a loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and development to enable achieving full compliance with the N-1 electricity transmission grid security criteria, the bank said on its website. This is a key technical requirement for Kostt to join the European […]
Turkish investor wins geothermal power plant deal
MB Holding has been awarded a contract to build a geothermal power plant with a capacity of 16.5 MW in Croatia, according to SeeNews. Turboden, Italian-based manufacturer of turbogenerators, said that in September it signed a deal with the company from Turkey which holds a permit from January to build Croatia’s first power generating facility […]
