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Swedish HYBRIT technology launches industry’s first fossil-free steel
19 August 2021 - Within the HYBRIT project, SSAB has manufactured the first fossil-free steel in the world and delivered it to Volvo Group.
Apply for European Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning Award
19 August 2021 - Local authorities can apply for the European Award for Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning or SUMP Award by the end of October
EU coal consumption decreased by two thirds in last 30 years
18 August 2021 - In 2020, the EU consumed 63% and 64% less hard coal and brown coal, respectively, than in 1990, according to Eurostat's data.
Second failure of ALPEX tender for electronic power trading platform
18 August 2021 - The Albanian Power Exchange didn’t succeed in finding a supplier for its platform, while Montenegrin BELEN selected its own.
EU countries fail to minimize pollution from large combustion plants
18 August 2021 - EEB warns of a massive financial and health bill as big industrial units that use lignite stretched rules from the Industrial Emissions Directive
Most of bilateral financing of power plants from China, Japan, US went to fossil fuel projects
17 August 2021 - Between 2000-2018 three countries financed coal and gas power plants with installed capacity of 243 GW.
Small solar power projects in Greece on hold due to grid overburden
16 August 2021 - Distribution system operator HEDNO can't connect household rooftop solar power systems anymore in some parts of Greece as the capacity reached its limits
Romanian e-UpCity electric bus passes urban transport test
16 August 2021 - The e-UpCity electric bus, produced by Romania’s company ATP, has successfully been tested in the city of Târgu Mureș.
California to mandate installation of solar panels for new, renovated buildings
16 August 2021 - The energy regulator has proposed the installation of PV panels and battery storage for the construction and renovation of all buildings to be mandatory.
Parliament of Montenegro to install rooftop solar power plant
16 August 2021 - The building of the Parliament of Montenegro is undergoing internal renovation, but it also has a project for a 90 kW rooftop solar power plant.
DEM bolstering Slovenia’s largest hydropower plant with solar power
13 August 2021 - Dravske hidroelektrarne Maribor is about to start building a 2.7 MW photovoltaic facility next to its hydropower plant Zlatoličje, the largest in Slovenia.
Irish Eqtec re-enters Croatia market with Belišće biomass facility
13 August 2021 - Waste-to-energy and gasification solutions company Eqtec has announced it has completed the acquisition of a 1.2 MW power plant in Croatia.
Coal power plant Pljevlja likely to be shut down by 2030 – Montenegrin prime minister
12 August 2021 - The state must create conditions for the development of companies able to accept employees from the sectors that will be affected by the energy transition.
Chinese CMC wants to build 100 MW solar power plant in Serbia’s Sombor
12 August 2021 - CMC Europe and the Serbian City of Sombor signed a cooperation protocol on the development of a 100 MW solar power project
Slovenia gets new law on renewables – heating boilers on oil, coal banned from 2023
12 August 2021 - The goal of the new law on renewables is to transpose the legislative acts of the Clean Energy for All Europeans package.
Cyprus failing to halt solar power projects in environmentally sensitive areas
12 August 2021 - The rapid expansion of solar power threatens agricultural and protected areas and there have been numerous cases of irreversible damage in Cyprus