Emission rights auctions to fund energy efficiency
The Ministry of Environment and Energy plans to implement the energy efficiency policy mandated by the European Union by using 40% of funds raised at carbon emission rights auctions, portal Energy Press reported. The remainder will be transferred to the special account for renewable sources, according to the Greek ministry’s report to the Regulatory Authority […]
Three countries complete energy consumption surveys
The first contracting parties of the Energy Community have completed energy consumption surveys under a technical assistance project financed by the Energy Community Secretariat. Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Montenegro submitted the survey results to the International Energy Agency. The results now feature in the IEA’s energy efficiency country practices […]
Japan’s Marubeni eyes investment opportunities
Representatives of Marubeni Corporation’s businesses in the Czech Republic and Romania Kazuya Kodama and Tashiro Kimura visited the Foreign Investment Promotion Agency (FIPA). The institution’s director Gordan Milinić informed the guests on major projects owned by public companies of Bosnia and Herzegovina, including also private companies’ projects, as well as on the conditions for investing and […]
Belgrade purchases five electric buses
Serbian capital’s public transportation company GSP Beograd signed a contract with Chariot Motors from Sofia, Bulgaria, for the delivery of five electric buses. The solo low-floor vehicles will come to Belgrade within 150 days. Mayor Siniša Mali said there are 700 buses in the city streets, spending three million litres of fuel a month. The […]
Businesses expand operations with energy efficiency
Three companies in Slovenia invested in distribution and generation of warm water, portal Trajnostna energija reported. The steel industry is focusing on the vast potentials of waste heat for electricity and district heating. Metal Ravne d. o. o. launched a project with Petrol energetika to provide heat to the local Carinthian village Ravne na Koroškem. […]
Eco Fund to disburse higher grants for e-vehicles
Slovenian Environmental Public Fund extended last year’s public calls for grants for electric vehicles and announced it would publish new ones. The institution determined grant levels to be between EUR 3,000 and EUR 7,500 depending on the vehicle, compared to last year’s EUR 2,000 to EUR 5,000, according to portal Invest in Slovenia. Citizens can […]
Germany’s GES establishing solar panel plant
Renewable energy company German Electro-Mechatronic Systems (GES) signed a contract worth EUR 15 million for the construction of a solar panel and LED lights plant and an office building in Macedonia, the government in Skopje said and SeeNews reported. The construction of the manufacturing facility is expected to start at the end of February or […]
EU Court rules against wind park projects in Kaliakra
The Court of Justice of the European Union said it ruled that Bulgaria failed to fulfil its obligations under European law by approving the implementation of several projects for wind farms and a golf course in the northeast of the country. The state should pay the costs of the process, the court said and SeeNews […]
