Renewables
Green Caucus established in Assembly of Kosovo*
08 May 2019 - The informal Green Caucus has been recently established in the Assembly of Kosovo*. The constitution...
EPCG’s new investment cycle focuses on portfolio diversification, hydropower projects
07 May 2019 - A Belgrade consortium comprising engineering firm Energoprojekt Hidroinženjering and water management institute Jaroslav Černi has...
RWE acquires Croatian solar energy service provider
07 May 2019 - German power utility RWE has taken over Relatio ES Adria, one of the largest Croatian...
Montenegro scraps feed-in tariff surcharge
06 May 2019 - The Montenegrin government has decided to abolish the surcharge paid by consumers through electricity bills...
LM Wind Power hiring 300 as part of Bergama blade plant expansion
03 May 2019 - Wind turbine blade designer and manufacturer LM Wind Power, a GE Renewable Energy business, has...
Top 3 in April: Renewables’ share of global capacity, Equinor, Bulgaria’s electricity export tariff
01 May 2019 - The International Renewable Energy Agency’s (IRENA) announcement that total renewable energy generation capacity reached a...
Macedonian activist wins Goldman Environmental Prize
30 April 2019 - The Goldman Environmental Foundation has announced six recipients of the 2019 Goldman Environmental Prize, the...
Net metering to be introduced in Serbia – political decision needed to tap into solar power
30 April 2019 - The Serbian Ministry of Mining and Energy intends to prepare the required regulatory framework for...
Turkey preparing to join global leaders in energy storage
29 April 2019 - The Turkish Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EMRA) has announced a Draft Regulation on Electricity Storage...
PPC Renewables to acquire 45% stake in Volterra’s 4 wind farms in Greece
26 April 2019 - Greece’s PPC Renewables, a subsidiary of the country’s majority state-owned power utility, Public Power Corporation...
There is no life without water, and small hydropower plants would extinguish it on Stara Planina
25 April 2019 - Aleksandar Jovanović Ćuta has been fighting against the construction of run-of-river small hydropower plants (SHPPs)...
Dimitrovgrad municipality proposes ban on SHPPs on its territory
24 April 2019 - The Municipal Council of Dimitrovgrad in eastern Serbia has adopted a decision to propose the...
Republika Srpska terminates 7 concessions for small hydropower plants
23 April 2019 - The Government of Republika Srpska (RS) has canceled 7 concession agreements for the construction of...
Investors alone have benefits from small hydropower plants – citizens, state and municipalities have none
19 April 2019 - The authorities did not consider the possible environmental impact when they lightly issued construction permits...
Slovenia pays EUR 135 million in renewable energy, CHP subsidies in 2018
18 April 2019 - Slovenia’s support payments for electricity from renewable energy sources and high-efficiency cogeneration (combined heat and...
International community, BiH officials adopt Joint Statement on energy sector reforms
18 April 2019 - Prime Ministers of the two entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Radovan Višković and Fadil Novalić,...