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Turkey promoting its alternative to Greece-Cyprus power cable
12 August 2024 - Last month Turkish warships chased away a vessel scanning the route for the Greece-Cyprus section of the Great Sea Interconnector
Romania drafts regulation for agrisolar plants on pastureland
12 August 2024 - Romania plans to limit the surface under solar panels and accompanying equipment on pastureland to 20% with a new decree on agrivoltaics
Protesters in Serbia block railway in campaign to ban lithium mining
11 August 2024 - A series of almost everyday protests for weeks throughout Serbia against lithium mining culminated in a massive rally in Belgrade
Northeast Bulgarian town resists giant wind power project that wpd revived
09 August 2024 - Wpd is facing backlash for trying to amend and merge two old wind power projects in General Toshevo in northeast Bulgaria
Montenegrin DSO to reduce grid losses to below 10%
09 August 2024 - Montenegrin DSO Crnogorski elektrodistributivni sistem has reduced losses in its grid from 12.93% to 10.84%
Turkish solar panel manufacturers expanding their capacity
09 August 2024 - Solar panel producers Kalyon Energy and Smart Solar Technologies are major players in Turkey's expansion in the sector, competing even with China
Negative electricity prices lower bills for households in Europe
09 August 2024 - Data for the first six months of 2024 showed that consumers with dynamic tariffs paid up to 34% less for electricity than the average price on the EEX
Waste-to-energy is win-win solution for Podgorica landfill – minister
09 August 2024 - Municipal waste management utility Deponija in Podgorica plans to build a waste-to-energy facility, its director Aleksandar Božović said
Revised Greek NECP halves initial expenditure sum, keeps focus on renewables
09 August 2024 - Greece aims at a less costly and more realistic energy transition through its revised National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP)
Montenegro publishes draft Energy Law for public debate
09 August 2024 - Montenegro is receiving comments on its draft Energy Law until September 16. The new provisions are harmonizing the domestic legal framework.
Fortis Energy secures preliminary grid permits for three wind projects in Serbia
08 August 2024 - Wind measurements for wind park sites and preliminary wind resource assessments are underway, Fortis Energy said
Zoran Gjorgjievski becomes CEO of North Macedonia’s MEMO power exchange
08 August 2024 - Zoran Gjorgjievski took over as CEO of North Macedonia's National Electricity Market Operator MEMO, which operates the power exchange
Romania won’t allow pumped storage project Đerdap 3 to jeopardize other Danube hydropower plants
07 August 2024 - Minister of Energy of Romania Sebastian Burduja said his country would closely follow the Đerdap 3 pumped storage hydropower project
BW ESS, Penso Power, Shell create pioneering battery storage partnership
07 August 2024 - A deal between BW ESS, Penso Power, and Shell represents a new model for agreements in the development and operation of energy storage systems
IED 2.0 allows EU citizens to sue industry over health damage from pollution
07 August 2024 - The EU's IED 2.0 law on industrial and livestock rearing emission allows people to seek compensation for health damage from illegal pollution
Eleport enters Croatian, Slovenian EV chargers market
07 August 2024 - Eleport’s network will now cover six countries. It already operates 800 EV chargers in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland.