Participants of the 2018 Energy Community Summer School are selected
The Energy Community Secretariat in consultation with a network of academic and research institutions of the participating countries has selected the participants of the 2018 Energy Community Summer School. Out of a record 269 applications submitted, 241 applicants met the selection criteria, of which the 40 most qualified were selected. Ensuring gender and geographical balance, […]
Startup Solagro tops first PowerUp! competition in Serbia
Startup Solagro, made up of Nemanja Janić, Marko Kaličanin and Đorđe Đorđević, won the first PowerUp! competition in Serbia with its innovative idea for a smart recycling system. Solagro also won the opportunity to compete with finalists from 24 Central European countries as part of the fourth edition of the PowerUp! Competition, which began on […]
Montenegro seeks bids to develop 200-MW-plus solar project
Montenegro’s Ministry of Economy has invited bids for a 30-year lease to 6,621,121 square meters of state-owned land to design, build, operate, and maintain a solar plant with an installed capacity of more than 200 MW. The minimum required bid for the solar plant project is EUR 0.05 per square meter a year, or a […]
Concession deal signed with Suzlon to build, operate 25.2 MW wind farm
The Sarajevo Canton government today signed a concession agreement with Suzlon Wind Energy BH, a subsidiary of India’s wind turbine supplier Suzlon Energy, to build and operate a 25.2 MW wind farm, according to a press release on the government’s website. The Ivan Sedlo-Hadžići wind farm will be the canton’s first. The investment is worth […]
EPCG inks wind farm MoU with Austria’s Ivicom, feed-in tariffs not planned
Montenegro’s power utility Elektroprivreda Crne Gore (EPCG) and Austria-based Ivicom Holding have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) concerning the implementation of a project to build the Gvozd wind farm with a planned capacity of 50 MW, under an investment estimated at around EUR 70 million, EPCG has said in a press release. Financing for […]
CMEC considering construction of wind farms at Galica, Vlašić location
Prime Minister of the Central Bosnia Canton (SBK) Tahir Lendo met with representatives of local firms Tomix Kneževo and TLG Travnik, as well as China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC) to discuss the construction of wind farms at the locations of Galica and Vlašić. CMEC and the two companies from Bosnia and Herzegovina started cooperation a […]
Hidroelectrica eyeing acquisition opportunities
Romanian power utility Hidroelectrica is considering the acquisition of wind and solar plants in Romania, as well as energy companies abroad, CEO Bogdan Badea said, Romanian media reported. According to ZiarulFinanciar, Hidroelectrica plans to open electricity trading office in Hungary. The biggest Romanian hydropower producer intends to inaugurate the office in Budapest, Hungary in September. […]
EBRD mulls equity investment in Turkish renewable energy business
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is considering an equity investment, in the form of capital increase, in Turkish renewable energy firm Ictas Yenilenebilir Enerji Uretim ve Ticaret. The portfolio of the renewable energy firm, a unit of IC Ictas Enerji Yatirim Holding, consists of around 400 MW of operational hydropower plants and […]