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Agora: Faster decarbonization in Western Balkans would ease impact of EU’s CO2 border tax
21 January 2022 - The Western Balkans need to step up the integration of their power markets and roll out carbon pricing to avoid the CO2 border tax, Agora said
Oil company INA to install largest solar power plant in Croatia
21 January 2022 - The beginning of construction is planned for the spring, and the power plants are expected to be online in 2023.
Conference Serbian Companies on Changing Power Market to be held in Belgrade on February 22
21 January 2022 - In Belgrade on February 22, Balkan Green Energy News is organizing a conference on the outlook for Serbia’s electricity market for the next few years and new roles of market players.
Serbia scraps spatial plan for Rio Tinto’s lithium mining project, all permits
20 January 2022 - The Government of Serbia annulled its decree on the spatial plan for Rio Tinto's lithium project and met all the environmentalists' demand, Prime Minister Ana Brnabić said
Montenegro declares 13 energy projects as infrastructure priorities
20 January 2022 - The government's list of priority infrastructure includes 81 projects in the environmental protection sector
Romania’s startup Recommerce to offer refurbished smartphones in ten countries in East Europe
20 January 2022 - The French retailer Carrefour has decided to offer customers refurbished smartphones in its stores in Romania
International institutions urge Serbia not to delay implementation of renewable energy law
19 January 2022 - Reacting to demands from EMS and EPS, international institutions said altering the renewable energy law in Serbia could disappoint investors
Swiss energy trader Axpo inks PPA to buy electricity from 300 MWp of solar in Poland
19 January 2022 - Axpo Polska will buy the entire output of the solar power plants between 2022 and 2026, and will act as the balancing agent for the project portfolio.
First floating PV plant to be built in Greece by Terna – global market to reach 4.8 GW by 2026
19 January 2022 - Floating PV technology is making its first steps in the Balkan region, with companies in Greece, Albania, Romania and Montenegro investing
Call for postgrads, young professionals to apply for Energy Community Summer School
18 January 2022 - The Energy Community Secretariat is receiving applications for the 2022 Energy Community Summer School in Sarajevo, to be held in August
Expansion of green hydrogen changing geopolitical relations – IRENA
18 January 2022 - Green hydrogen could cover up to 12 percent of global energy consumption in 2050, according...
Romanian Commodities Exchange to roll out platform for bilateral power supply contracts
17 January 2022 - Power purchase agreements were centralized within Romanian TSO Transelectrica's OPCOM market until a recent government directive
ERS plans EUR 218 million capital injection to fund construction of HPP Dabar
17 January 2022 - State-owned power utility Elektroprivreda Republike Srpske (ERS) plans a EUR 218 million capital increase in...
Albania has 570 MW of solar projects in pipeline
17 January 2022 - The Energy Regulatory Authority, relevant ministry and environment agency are busy with procedures for a trove of solar projects
Slovenia, Czech Republic to exit coal by 2033
14 January 2022 - Coal phase-out by 2033 announced Slovenian government, and the new Czech government announced a coal exit for the same year
IEA: Rising demand for electricity could result in high prices over next three years
14 January 2022 - Average wholesale electricity prices in Europe in the fourth quarter of 2021 were more than four times as high as their 2015-2020 average