Country’s first mini hydropower facility launched
In the village of Lijeska near Tomaševo in Bijelo Polje municipality, Vrelo mini hydropower plant has been put into use. Bijelo Polje’s official website reported Ivana Hlavsová, the Czech ambassador, and Aleksandar Žurić, the municipal head, led the launching ceremony. The power plant, located in Montenegro’s northeast, was equipped by Hydrolink SRO. The concession had […]
Vaptech commissions Mesići-Nova hydropower plant
Old hydro facility Slaviša Vajner Čiča from 1950 was retired, Večernje novosti newspaper reported. The plant in a cave, on Prača water stream, was replaced by Mesići-Nova’s three turbine-generator sets. The Vaptech-powered 5.21 MW facility was launched by Milorad Dodik, president of the Republic of Srpska, Željka Cvijanović, prime minister of the entity, and Petar […]
Consultant to be hired for Kostolac wind park project
EPS (Electric Power Industry of Serbia), state-owned utility, is completing the bidding process for a consultant on a feasibility study and concept design. It is for the Kostolac wind park project in the eponymous municipality of the same name. The area east of capital Belgrade has a thermal power plant, also of the same name, […]
Development of a Sustainable Bioenergy Market in Serbia
Project summary A series of round tables on sustainable use of biomass was held from October 2014 to April 2015 by the Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence (BFPE) with support from Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). The aim of the project was to establish dialogue for decision makers at the national and local level […]
Birds, bats and wind power: understanding risks
“The biggest thing we get from a cumulative impact assessment is for developers to share data, and this is a major win for the environmental community, because usually most are shy to do so,” Lori Anna Conzo, International Finance Corporation’s environmental specialist, told Balkan Green Energy News at an event on wind power. She participated […]
Vestas receives 83 MW order for Yahyalı wind park
Bak Enerji Uretimi A. Ş. is buying equipment for its wind project in Turkey from Vestas Wind Systems A/S. The order for the Yahyalı project comprises the supply and installation of 25 of V126-3.3 MW wind turbine units as well as a 10-year active output management (AOM) 4000 service agreement, Vestas said. Delivery of 83 […]
CHP plant to be added to pellet facility by end-2016
Bioenergy Point, part of businessman Zoran Drakulić’s Point Group Int, started the construction of a cogeneration facility in Boljevac which will run on waste from the company’s local wood pellet production plant, Večernje novosti newspaper said. Drakulić had announced the EUR 2 million investment in May last year. The electricity would be used for the […]
Very few of Vojvodina’s 78 geothermal wells utilized
Pannonian Plain countries, excluding Hungary, do not use enough of their geothermal potentials due to high costs of research, drilling, introduction of new technologies, purification systems and protection
