Exergy’s Denizli Tosumlar ORC geothermal plant in Turkey wins top plant award
The Denizli Tosunlar ORC geothermal power plant in Turkey received the Top Plant award in the Renewable energy project domain. Italian company Exergy S.p.A. built it for its client Akça Enerji in 2015. The Power Magazine awarded the Denizli Tosunlar ORC geothermal plant as a part of its “Power Awards” competition, and announced its decision […]
Electricity suppliers in Croatia demand market prices
Electricity suppliers in Croatia demand from the Government to ensure the purchase of electricity from renewable sources at market prices. Gathered together to criticize the amendments to the law that will provide higher incentives for renewable energy producers, the electricity suppliers have warned that such an energy policy could destroy the market and increase the […]
Krnovo wind park to start trial production of energy in early 2017
Works on the construction of Krnovo wind power plant near Nikšić are completed and trial production of energy should start early next year after the operating licence is obtained. The Krnovo wind power plant consists of 26 wind turbines, two transmission lines and two substations, maintenance buildings, while planned annual production is between 200 to […]
EU’s ambitious goals in the 2030 energy strategy package
The European Commission has presented an ambitious energy strategy, dubbed “Clean Energy for All Europeans” with plans to cut carbon-dioxide emissions by at least 40% before 2030. The proposed legislation covers energy efficiency, renewable energy, the design of the electricity market, security of electricity supply and governance rules for the Energy Union, and a strategy […]
New law on renewables acceptable, still room for improvement
The Association for Wind Energy (RWEA) welcomed the decision of the Romanian Government to change the Law which sets the support system for the production of energy from renewables. According to RWEA, a series of legislative changes introduced since 2013 have affected the support scheme for energy producers in the renewables industry and a new […]
Proposed law changes for renewable energy in Romania not in favour of small producers
Small energy producers in Romania claim that proposed law changes for the renewable energy sector are not in their favour. After a public consultation, the Energy Ministry has recently published the draft bill for amending the Law 220 from 2008 which sets the support system for the production of energy from renewable sources. According to the […]
GEN-I Sonce step towards energy independence
The Slovenian company GEN-I presented their new service GEN-I Sonce (Sun) which allows households and small businesses to build micro solar power plants on a “turnkey” basis. The GEN-I Sonce service is the first of its kind in Slovenia and it should enable citizens and businesses to make an environmental, sustainable and economically viable transition […]
EFdeN – Solar house and status of prosumers in Romania
By Mihai Toader-Pasti and Claudiu Butacu, co-founders energiaTa and EFdeN EFdeN is one of Europe’s most sustainable houses. It is situated in Bucharest, the capital of Romania. The house has been developed by a passionate team of students, who participated in the third European edition of the Solar Decathlon competition, which took place in 2014 […]