Macedonian government gives subsidies for solar thermal panels to households
Macedonia has granted subsidies for installation of the solar thermal panels to 620 households across the country planned for 2016. The funds worth MKD 6 million (EUR 100,000) were provided by the Ministry of Economy, which gives back to buyers 30% of the money they invested in the equipment. The maximum subsidy per household is set at […]
Prince of Jordan interested in investing in solar in BIH
Prince of Jordan Mohammed al-Abbas Bin Ali is interested in investing in solar energy in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Accompanied by his several advisors and two businessmen from Libya, Mohammed al-Abbas Bin Ali visited Foreign Investment Promotion Agency of BiH (FIPA), the Agency announced. The Deputy Director of the FIPA Blaženka Mišković and her associates […]
Turkish authorities approve five Exergy geothermal units in just five days
Italian energy equipment manufacturer Exergy S.p.A. managed to win approval from Turkish authorities for five different geothermal units in five days. The manufacturer of the radial outflow turbine technology said that the Turkish Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources declared that geothermal facilities named Kubilay I, Mehmet Han, Ken Kipas, Umurlu II and Sultanhisar I […]
Biomass conference SEE Energy – Connect & Supply 2016 held in Novi Sad
The utilization of renewable energy sources in Serbia has been on the rise in recent years, but huge biomass potential to generate heat and electrical energy is still far from being fully exploited. This is the main message sent from the international conference “SEE Energy – Connect & Supply 2016” held in Novi Sad and […]
Intersectoral cooperation in the Drina river basin discussed in Belgrade
The international and domestic experts and stakeholders from the three neighbouring countries – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia – gathered in Belgrade for the second workshop “Assessing the water-energy-food-ecosystems nexus and benefits of transboundary cooperation in the Drina river basin”. The workshop organised jointly by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), and […]
More bids expected for Morača HPPs construction
Montenegrin Ministry of Economy expects that it will get more offers for the construction of hydropower plants (HPPs) on the river Morača. So far, several memorandums of understanding have been signed and the investors interested in the Morača HPPs construction project are from China, Turkey and Slovenia, the daily Vijesti reported. One of the companies […]
EBRD to support renewable energy projects in Greece
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will support one of the leading Greek renewable energy companies Terna Energy S.A. with EUR 50 million to develop projects in Central Greece. Terna Energy will invest a total of EUR 60 million in the development, construction and operation of renewable energy projects in Greece. One of […]
Serbia’s Priboj starts using biomass for public heating
Municipality of Priboj in south-western Serbia has made an important step towards sustainable economy, as one part of its public heating system is now powered by biomass instead of the fossil fuels. The project of heating plant transformation was supported by the Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection and German international development organisation GIZ, all […]