Is becoming a prosumer in Serbia an impossible mission?

Author: Aleksandar Janjić, PhD, Univeristy of Niš, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Department of Power Engineering Perhaps even more so than Serbian energy companies, the Serbian language tends to be resilient to novelty, and blend words. This is why any attempt at translating the term “prosumer” ends up as an entertaining incident. Prosumer is a term […]

Bulgaria to launch EUR 33 million renewables, energy efficiency, energy security program

Bulgaria is preparing to launch its Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency and Energy Security Program, with an estimated EUR 33 million budget to finance street lighting, geothermal and hydropower utilization, energy efficiency in buildings, and other projects, the Ministry of Energy has said on its website. For the first time in the current programming period, beneficiaries […]

Green Caucus established in Assembly of Kosovo*

The informal Green Caucus has been recently established in the Assembly of Kosovo*. The constitution of the Green Caucus is result of the previous devoted work of its parliamentarians on both regional and national level on the topics of energy efficiency and climate protection supported by the GIZ Open Regional Fund for South-East Europe – […]

EPCG’s new investment cycle focuses on portfolio diversification, hydropower projects

A Belgrade consortium comprising engineering firm Energoprojekt Hidroinženjering and water management institute Jaroslav Černi has been selected to produce a conceptual design for hydropower plant (HPP) Komarnica, and has already prepared an environmentally acceptable technical solution, which paves the way for the construction of the power plant following decades of research, Igor Noveljić, CEO of […]

RWE acquires Croatian solar energy service provider

German power utility RWE has taken over Relatio ES Adria, one of the largest Croatian companies in design, supply, installation and commissioning of solar power plants, Novac.hr reported. Relatio ES Adria, based in Varaždin, was established in 2012, and until 2019 it has designed, installed and put into operation solar power plants in Croatia, BiH, […]

Montenegro scraps feed-in tariff surcharge

The Montenegrin government has decided to abolish the surcharge paid by consumers through electricity bills to fund the feed-in tariff scheme for privileged power producers. The funds collected through the surcharge will instead be secured through coal excise duty. Answering MPs questions in the parliament, Prime Minister Duško Marković said the abolition of the surcharge […]