Company established for HPP Buk Bijela’s construction
Public power utility Elektroprivreda Republike Srpske (ERS) and its subsidiary Hidroelektrane na Drini have established a Foča-based joint venture, Hidroelektrana Buk Bijela, for the production and sale of electricity, news agency Srna reported. The agreement on the establishment of the joint venture was signed by ERS acting director Radmila Čičković and Nedeljko Perišić, director of […]
Power utility EPBiH swings to EUR 15 million net profit in H1
Power utility Elektroprivreda BiH (EPBiH) reported a net profit of around BAM 28 million (some EUR 15 million) in the first half of 2018, after posting a loss of nearly BAM 23 million (about EUR 12.4 million) in H1 2017. The financial data is partly due to poor hydrological conditions and bad weather last year […]
Funds secured for wastewater collection, treatment project in Zenica
An agreement on a EUR 4.75 million donation from the Swiss government marks the final step in securing EUR 19.2 million for the wastewater collection and treatment project in the City of Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Agreements on the donation from the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) and cooperation with German development […]
Banja Luka in talks with EBRD on loan of up to EUR 10 million for water supply projects
Banja Luka Mayor Igor Radojičić and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s (EBRD) representative Josip Polić signed a letter of intent on August 1 concerning a loan of up to EUR 10 million for construction works on the primary and secondary water supply network, the city said in a news release. Negotiations with the […]
ERS posts EUR 28.6 million profit in H1, presses ahead with HPP, small HPP, wind park projects
Elektroprivreda Republike Srpske (ERS) reported a EUR 28.6 million profit in the first half of 2018, acting General Manager Radmila Čičković has told Srna, local media reported. All production and distribution units of ERS, the power utility of Bosnian Serb entity Republika Srpska, except the Gacko coal mining and thermal power plant complex, operated in […]
Aarhus Centre lodges court complaints against environmental permits for HPPs Buk Bijela, Foča
The Aarhus Resource Centre Sarajevo has submitted two complaints to the District Court in Banja Luka against the environmental permits for the Buk Bijela and Foča hydropower plants (HPPs) on the river Drina in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) near the border with Montenegro, CEE Bankwatch Network, one of the largest networks of environmental civil society […]
Nevesinje municipality, Ekoteh sign contract for new EUR 1.2 million water treatment plant
Nevesinje Mayor Milenko Avdalović and Marko Škoberne, chairman of the management board of Slovenia-based Ekoteh, have signed an agreement on EUR 1.2 million worth of reconstruction works on the water treatment plant in Nevesinje. The reconstruction is part of a wider EUR 100 million program to improve drinking water and the sewerage network in Republika […]
EUR 200 million HPP Dabar project draws 19 expressions of interest
Hidroelektrana Dabar, part of hydropower plant operator Hidroelektrane na Trebišnjici (HET), has received 19 expressions of interest (EOI) in a turnkey/engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract for a 160 MW Dabar hydropower plant (HPP Dabar), said Željko Zubac, acting general manager of Hidroelektrana Dabar. The 19 expressions of interest in the HPP Dabar project came […]