Sečanj municipality seeks bids for public lighting system

Sečanj municipality started a public procurement process aiming to hire a private partner to provide services of public lighting overhaul, to install, maintain and manage a wireless-controlled LED system. “We offered a model of paying the private partner monthly from our budget during the 12 years of the contract duration,” Novak Zubac, head of the […]

News May 22, 2015

Prime minister’s son applies for hydro plant construction

Blažo Đukanović submitted an application to the Ministry of Sustainable Development, in the name of his company BB Hidro, to build a mini hydropower plant on the Raštak river in Kolašin area in northern Montenegro, Vijesti newspaper from Podgorica reported. The document, signed by Slaven Burzanović, authorized representative, was submitted on May 15, the report […]

News May 20, 2015

Floods highlight renewable energy market opportunities

As Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia continue to rebuild after the devastating floods of 2014, renewable energy development opportunities are popping up left and right, RenewableEnergyWorld.com portal’s contributor Ilias Tsagas wrote in an analysis. The Balkan region has enormous renewable energy potential but to date progress has been hindered by financing, weak legislation and […]

News May 19, 2015

Biogas-powered generator registered by energy regulator

Private utility Pelagonija Enerdži DOOEL, headquartered in Bitola, had its biogas-fuelled electric power plant registered in the national list of electricity-generating facilities that run on renewable sources, Build.mk portal reported. The generator has an installed capacity of 2 MW and it is the second of the type in Macedonia, as a thermal power plant on […]

News May 19, 2015

Medium voltage transmission network procurement

Electricity distribution operator Oshee received procurement procedure applications for the construction of the 20 kV network Paskuqan – Babrru No. 2, Investment.albaniaenergy.org portal reported. The procurement came after the open notice released on April 8 for the construction of 20kV Paskuqan – Babru network No. 5, with April 30 as deadline for prequalification submission, and […]

News May 19, 2015

Three countries fail to fulfil Energy Community obligations

Energy Community Secretariat said it submitted three reasoned requests on May 12 to the Ministerial Council as the next step in the dispute settlement cases against Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. The secretariat seeks a decision establishing that the contracting parties concerned failed to fulfil their obligations stemming from […]

News May 13, 2015

ČEZ overcomes green certificate allocation suspension

Czech energy group ČEZ’ operating profit in Romania stagnated in the first quarter of 2015 at EUR 29.2 million, compared to the same period last year, EnergyWorld magazine reported. The increase in energy production has offset the negative effect of suspending green certificate allocation for the Cogealac wind farm. ČEZ owns the Fântânele wind park, […]

News May 13, 2015

Biomass enhances energy independence, adds savings

Guarantee Fund of Vojvodina, Serbia’s northern province, organized an international conference named ’Promoting Renewable Energy Sources: Biomass in Agriculture’ in partnership with Heinrich Böll Foundation, German International Cooperation – GIZ, and European Affaires Fund of Vojvodina, under patronage of the Provincial Secretariat for Energy and Mineral Resources, and with support from the Provincial Secretariat for […]

News May 12, 2015