Yıldız: 4 GW to be added in 2015, mostly from renewables
Turkey will add 4 GW to electricity production capacity in 2015, energy minister Taner Yıldız said, adding 95 percent will be provided through local and renewable resources, Hurriyet daily reported. The statement came after a massive power outage affected more than 76 million people in 80 out of 81 Turkish provinces for up to nine […]
Obsolete planning data and dry land for mini hydro plants
A review by Serbia’s public water management enterprise Srbijavode led to the conclusion that at least one-fifth of locations the government offered to investors to build small hydropower plants (SHPPs) was on dry land, Serbian daily Večernje novosti said. Out of 600, only around 60 places are suitable to build a dam on a small […]
Goražde solar project expands soon, investor says
After a 670 panels unit in the village of Bujaci was finished a year ago, a five times larger solar power project is underway near Goražde, entrepreneur Azem Bujak told Klix.ba portal. He had said existing capacity was 200 MWh per year, enough for powering 100 local households in the underdeveloped area. “We received a […]
Two 1.5 MW biogas power plants planned near Sombor
Sombor Mayor Saša Todorović signed a cooperation protocol with owners of two farms in city territory’s villages of Aleksa Šantić and Stanišić and with Jozef Balko, owner of Slovakian company Energotex SK s. r. o. from Dolni Kubin for long-term power production from renewable sources, SOinfo.org portal reported. Construction of two biogas-powered plants, of 1.5 […]
Smart grids could be Europe’s shale gas
Infrastructure for balancing intermittent solar and wind energy with flexible power demand could do for Europe what shale gas has done for the United States, European Commission Vice President Maroš Šefčovič said on April 2, EurActiv.com and Reuters reported. Smart grids are crucial for EU single energy market plans as they could integrate more renewables […]
Environment Fund gets 10% from renewables incentives?
The Government of the Republic of Srpska, one of country’s two entities, adopted the Draft Bill on Renewable Energy Sources and Efficient Cogeneration stipulating that the Environment Fund shall get 10% instead of 5% from the money levied as incentives for generating power from renewable sources. The increase wouldn’t burden the consumers paying the fee, […]
IFC leads Akuo’s loan project to finance 77.5 MW wind farm
French green power producer Akuo Energy said it signed a mandate letter with International Finance Corporation (IFC) to finance the erection of the 77.5 MW Bağlar wind farm near Konya. The mandate letter provides for IFC to lead and arrange a syndicate of other multilateral agencies or commercial banks to provide up to EUR 100 […]
Bulgaria’s Solarpro Holding turns to net loss in 2014
Bulgarian provider of products and services for the solar industry Solarpro Holding said it turned to net loss of BGN 993,000 (EUR 507,700) in 2014 from net profit of BGN 57,000 a year earlier, reported SeeNews portal. The company’s revenues grew to BGN 3.9 million in 2014 from BGN 2.6 million in 2013, it said […]
