CEB secures credit line for Bulgarian Development Bank
The Administrative Council of the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB) has approved a credit line in the amount of EUR 150 million for Bulgarian Development Bank (BDB). The funds will be used for special purpose financing under the National Programme for Energy Efficiency of Multi-family Residential Buildings in the amount of up to BGN […]
Electrocentrale completes 1.7 MW photovoltaic project
The electric photovoltaic power plant at Chiscani in eastern Romania has been launched in the presence of Andrei Gerea, Minister of Energy, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and Business Environment. The project worth EUR 2.45 million has been developed by Electrocentrale Grup as the beneficiary and the association of Tractebel Engineering Romania as consultant and project […]
LED lighting and energy efficiency for municipalities
Capital Investments Administration of Autonomous Province of Vojvodina signed grant contracts for energy efficiency projects with eight municipalities. The financing and co-financing budget is RSD 59.4 million (EUR 494,000), the institution said. The question of energy efficiency enhancement concerns the whole community, because it means more rational energy use, cutting down on energy expenditure for […]
Solar-powered bench glows at night, charges gadgets
Ivan Mrvoš, a 20-year old electrical engineering student from Solin near Split in Dalmatia, developed a prototype solar bench, with support by the municipal authority. The invention is shockproof, it is equipped with four chargers for mobile phones and tablets, and at night it is used as public lighting, portal Dalmacijanews.hr reported. The solar bench, […]
RWE teams up with HEP to tap on renewables’ potential
Novenerg, a 50-50 joint venture aiming to exploit the potential of renewable energy sources, was founded on July 1 by Germany’s RWE AG and Croatia’s national electricity company HEP Group. The project was started in order to strategically evaluate and analyse potentials of investment in power generation in the sector, with a focus on Southeastern […]
Mecasolar supplies horizontal trackers to solar plant
A total of 47 trackers, using 420 axes of up to 10.8 kW per axis, and 18,960 modules of 240 W nominal power will be installed by Mecasolar (Mecanizados Solares SL) in a new solar power project in Korkuteli in Antalya province. The company said the delivery of equipment of 4.5 MW to the facility […]
Memorandum signed for a CHP plant investment
Official website of the City of Kruševac said the local authority signed a cooperation memorandum concerning a future cogeneration plant with Building Energy 1, subsidiary of Building Energy from Milan, Italy, and local company Sinergy Invest. The construction and installation project is worth EUR 25 million, and the plan is to initially employ 30 to […]
Greece, Cyprus among top solar thermal markets in EU
Last year Greece had the biggest expansion of the capacities for solar thermal energy among the markets followed by Balkan Green Energy News, according to Solar Thermal and Concentrated Solar Power Barometer published by EurObserv’ER. The country added 189.4 MW of thermal power to top an overall capacity of 3 GW, making it third in […]
