Countdown to RENEXPO Western Balkans

BelExpocentar in Belgrade will be the business meeting point of investors, decision makers, ministries representatives and municipal authorities, as well as business leaders from renewable energy sectors on April 20 and 21, company REECO said. The third RENEXPO Western Balkans will provide a complete regional overview of potentials, projects, legislation and news. Side programs during […]

News March 15, 2016

Environmental study submitted for thermal project in Bogatic

The Municipality of Bogatić, located in western Serbia, requested approval from the national Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection for an environmental impact assessment study for the project of thermal water well BB-1. The well is part of a complex of thermal springs discovered in early 1980s, which wasn’t utilized properly until a few years […]

News March 15, 2016

Energetika Ljubljana starts distributing power to homes

After reorganization was completed following the integration with Slovenia’s biggest highly efficient cogeneration facility TE-TOL in 2014, Energetika Ljubljana announced the addition of electricity in its retail portfolio. The company said it introduced the concept of complete energy supply for its customers, stressing it strives for environmentally responsible and efficient operations in urban areas, citing […]

News March 15, 2016

EPCG receives invitation for SEEPEX, CROPEX

All energy entities in Montenegro are consulting the Ministry of Economy and the Energy Regulatory Agency after leaders of the countries in the region agreed at a summit in Vienna that every country must have its own power market or join a neighbouring one, state-owned utility Electric Power Company of Montenegro (EPCG) informed news agency […]

Fast charging means lower cost for electric bus lines

While Shanghai runs its electric buses in public transport with EUR 80,000 chargers on every bus stop, Belgrade chose a less expensive solution. Željko Milković, chief executive of Serbian capital’s public transportation company GSP Beograd, told Večernje novosti newspaper the concept for the system to be introduced in June is based on ultracapacitors with fast […]

News March 11, 2016

Hydropower plants overhaul budgeted with EUR 480 million

HEP Group marked half of a century of the operation of hydropower plant Dubrovnik in its rehabilitated facility, the first in a programme that state-owned energy utility determined to last through 2020. Managing director Perica Jukić said the company secured HRK 3.6 billion (EUR 480 million) for the overhaul, planned to introduce new capacity of […]

News March 11, 2016

Small hydropower project changes ownership structure

Company Radius, registered in Herceg Novi, stepped out of the concession contract for the construction of a small hydropower plant (SHPP) on Murinska rijeka in the municipality of Plav in Montenegro’s east. According to a document issued by the state government, the share is transferred to Industriaimport–Industriaimpex. The concession was granted in 2010 to a […]

News March 10, 2016

Framework covers donor-funded environmental projects

Minister of agriculture and environmental protection Snežana Bogosavljević Bošković announced the Green Fund of the Republic of Serbia will start its operations on January 1 next year as a body within the institution. Speaking at a meeting of the National Investments Committee, she presented the progress made in the implementation of investments in the field […]

News March 10, 2016