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Matteo Colangeli to be EBRD’s Western Balkans, Serbia chief
01 April 2021 - Matteo Colangeli, head of the EBRD in Albania, was promoted to director for the Western Balkans and head of Serbia, replacing Zsuzsanna Hargitai
North Macedonia securing gas, electricity supply amid coal phaseout
01 April 2021 - The country has signed three memoranda with Greece on the future LNG terminal near Alexandroupolis and the adjacent gas-fired power plant.
TPP Pljevlja uses its 20,000 hours production limit – European Environment Agency
31 March 2021 - The EEA has officially confirmed that the power plant, part of utility EPCG, consumed its limit for production at the end of 2020.
EPS director: Serbia won’t cut electricity production from coal despite green energy expansion
31 March 2021 - Milorad Grćić said power production from coal would remain at the same level while capacities in renewable energy sources would increase
Turkey has green hydrogen potential of 1.6 million tons per year
31 March 2021 - Turkey can produce up to 1.6 million tons of hydrogen per year with power supply from renewables, substituting 5% of total final energy consumption
Wpd Adria developing solar power project on site of its wind power plant
31 March 2021 - Wpd Adria is working on licenses for a photovoltaic facility in Šestanovac in Croatia on the same location where its Katuni wind power plant is
Turkey’s Garanti BBVA bank to stop financing coal projects
31 March 2021 - Garanti BBVA, the fifth-largest bank in Turkey vowed to cleanse the loan portfolio of the remaining coal mines and plants by 2040
Croatian government has realized renewables are the cheapest solution
30 March 2021 - Professor Neven Duić in an interview with Balkan Green Energy News talks about the energy transition in Croatia.
EPBiH mines ended 2020 with total debt of EUR 470 million
30 March 2021 - The miners from the Kreka brown coal mine in BiH stopped striking but bankruptcy looms if the reorganization plan is not implemented.
Serbian government adopts four bills on energy, mining
29 March 2021 - The government adopted the bills on renewable energy sources, energy, energy efficiency and mining, and sent them to parliament for adoption.
Climate Bonds Initiative rolls out criteria for sustainable hydropower
29 March 2021 - Hydropower developers and operators that want to raise funds via green bonds can now certify their environmental footprint by using CBI's tools
Largest power producers lose market share in almost all European countries
29 March 2021 - Market shares of the largest electricity producers have mostly been decreasing since 2007, according to the latest data by Eurostat.
Renewables are several times more profitable than fossil fuels
26 March 2021 - Investors in renewable power continue to outpace fossil fuel across the globe, according to the...
EPCG will enable citizens to install solar panels on their infertile land
26 March 2021 - Milutin Đukanović, president of the Board of Directors, said that the goals of EPCG are to reduce the citizen's bills and increase production.
IRENA: Albania’s cost-effective solar and wind potential is estimated at more than 7 GW
26 March 2021 - IRENA says Albania could significantly improve energy security and resilience to climate change by tapping on solar and wind potentials.
Rimac is developing urban mobility ecosystem with autonomous electric cars for Zagreb
26 March 2021 - Rimac Automobili is developing a EUR 450 million project, and about EUR 200 million could be provided from the EU funds.