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State Audit Institution: Grčić illegally serving as acting director of EPS
19 January 2021 - The law does not allow anyone to serve as an acting director for more than a year, and he has been performing the duty for over four years.
Energy Community calls on Contracting Parties to reassess coal subsidies
19 January 2021 - The Energy Community Secretariat has sent letters to national authorities of six Contracting Parties urging...
Milestone bill expected to make Poland top offshore wind player in the Baltics
19 January 2021 - Poland has adopted its first ever law regulating offshore wind development in what is expected...
Norwegian NBT joins Windvision on 800 MW of wind projects in Serbia
19 January 2021 - Norway's NBT has partnered with WV International (formerly Windvision) in an 800 MW portfolio of wind projects in Serbia.
Italy’s first renewable energy community set up in Magliano Alpi
18 January 2021 - Italy’s first renewable energy community (REC) has been established in the small northern town of Magliano Alpi.
Montenegro stops licensing new small hydropower plants
18 January 2021 - The government has decided to suspend the procedure of approving the construction of new facilities until the contracts concluded so far are reviewed.
Podveležje wind farm starts producing electricity
18 January 2021 - Wind turbines at locations 7 and 8 of the Podveležje wind farm have been given a test run, generating the first amount of electricity.
Cartoonists against devastation of rivers: “Mini Hydropower Plants – Maximum Destruction”
15 January 2021 - The contest organized by SharaWatch and the Union of Cartoonist of Serbia has attracted some 350 works from 40 countries.
Bankwatch urges Serbia to halt subsidies for small hydropower in new law on renewables
15 January 2021 - The scarce resources available need to be directed at those technologies which still need a boost but whose prices may still fall - mainly solar and wind farms.
IPTO to invest EUR 4.1 billion in new interconnections, renewables integration, batteries
15 January 2021 - Greece’s independent transmission system operator, IPTO, plans to invest EUR 4.1 billion over the next...
Sofia launches tendering for CHP plant as part of waste management system
14 January 2021 - The facility will burn refuse derived fuel to produce heat for the district heating system and electricity which will be delivered to the grid.
Albanian parliament approves climate change bill
14 January 2021 - The Albanian parliament has approved a climate change bill, which, among other things, provides a...
North Macedonia to launch auction for solar power plants in Q1 2021
14 January 2021 - The country will offer the construction of solar power plants with installed capacity totaling 60 MW, which will be backed with premiums.
Croatia grants renewables incentives for 25.5 MW in first ever auction
13 January 2021 - The public call for premiums and for feed-in tariffs referred to a total of 88 MW of installed renewable energy capacity.
New initiative to support sustainable hydropower in the Western Balkans
13 January 2021 - The initiative is led by the International Hydropower Association (IHA), the Albanian power utility KESH, and the Swiss SECO.
Petrol completes takeover of electricity supplier E3
13 January 2021 - Slovenian energy group Petrol has completed the takeover of electricity supplier E3, a subsidiary of...