Renewables
As CBAM carbon border tax looms, EU wants to help Western Balkans to adapt
23 May 2023 - The EU needs to help both the governments and industrial producers adapt to CBAM and overcome the initial impact, officials said
Firms in North Macedonia propose nine measures to tackle energy crisis
23 May 2023 - Companies in North Macedonia have asked the government for support due to the energy crisis, and proposed nine measures
BEF 2023: Infrastructure, technology, and financing for carbon neutrality by 2050: Chances and challenges for the Western Balkan region
23 May 2023 - Infrastructure, availability of technology, and financing are the key preconditions for transforming energy systems in the region into modern, low-carbon systems.
SEGE starts construction of largest solar project in Western Balkans in Kosovo*
22 May 2023 - According to SEGE's website, the electricity will be sold abroad via the transmission grid operated by TSO KOSTT
Serbia denies it would spin off hydropower plants to joint firm with Hungary’s MVM
22 May 2023 - Serbia denied that it plans to separate 350 MW in hydropower from state-owned coal and electricity producer EPS to a joint firm with MVM
Greece announces timetable, prices for renewable energy auctions
22 May 2023 - The Greek Ministry of Energy and Environment released an updated version of the timetable for renewable electricity auctions
Maja Turković: Battery installation requirement to clear large number of requests for grid connection
20 May 2023 - It would increase the cost of projects, Maja Turković, Executive Vice President, CWP Europe, said at the Belgrade Energy Forum 2023
BEF 2023: EU’s power market reform will only boost PPAs’ role
20 May 2023 - Businesses in the region must quickly adapt to the new power purchase rules to maintain and improve competitiveness, according to the panel Market design – is the current electricity market model sustainable?
Serbia’s TSO EMS to use Plexos to model grid investments
18 May 2023 - Simulating markets will help EMS to plan short-, medium- and long-term procurement decisions, forecasting losses and investment opportunities
Solar power in sports
18 May 2023 - Although rarely thought of as a sector deeply interested in renewable forms of power production, sport offers a great opportunity for applying solar technologies
BEF 2023: Flexibility services are business opportunity for renewables producers
17 May 2023 - The flexibility and digitalization panel at BEF 2023 acknowledged how difficult it is to integrate hundreds of gigawatts from new solar and wind power plants, but it also pointed to business opportunities in the emerging ancillary and system services
Masdar to invest in green energy with developer of Greece-Egypt power link
17 May 2023 - Copelouzos Group and Masdar's Infinity Power are mulling joint green electricity projects to feed the proposed Egypt-Greece interconnection
BEF 2023: Decarbonization and energy storage require district heating integration with power sector
17 May 2023 - Intersectoral cooperation and the integration of the electricity and district heating sectors are necessary to utilize the energy balancing and storage potential
Croatia’s HEP commissions country’s largest solar power plant in Obrovac
16 May 2023 - HEP Group's Obrovac solar power plant is the largest in Croatia, but the utility is set to complete two slightly larger ones just this year
First offshore wind farms in Greece to be installed in five zones in Aegean Sea
16 May 2023 - Greece aims to install its first offshore wind turbines, with a total capacity of 2.1 GW, in five regions of the Aegean Sea
Croatia’s offshore wind potential estimated at 25 GW
15 May 2023 - It is the result of the Action Plan for Renewable Energy Sources at Sea in Croatia, the first such study prepared in the country