Croatia, Montenegro and Albania join forces to fight Adriatic sea waste
The ministers of Croatia, Montenegro and Albania in charge of environmental protection have agreed to strengthen the cooperation and make it more result-oriented while looking for available funds in order to solve the problems with growing sea waste in the Adriatic Sea. At the meeting held in Dubrovnik, in Croatia, earlier this week, minister Tomislav […]
Network of fast charging stations for electric vehicles in Romania and Croatia
The Romanian renewable energy company Renovatio and Croatia’s telecommunications services provider Hrvatski Telekom said that they will install the first 23 fast charging stations for electric vehicles in Romania by the end of 2018 marking the start of a project to set up a network of 69 fast charging stations and 4 ultra-fast charging stations in the […]
Applications for Energy Community Summer School open until March 31
The third Energy Community Summer School will take place in Split, Croatia, from August 25 to September 1. Application deadline is March 31. No tuition fee is required. The 2018 Summer School’s focus is on energy sectors in transition, in particular in South Eastern and Eastern Europe, The Energy Community – organizer of the event, has […]
Wind energy: Croatia one of record-breakers, Serbia in top 10 in investments
Croatia installed 147 MW of wind power in 2017 and ended up as one of seven EU countries that had a record year in new wind energy installations. As for new asset financing in last year, with a EUR 600 million wind energy investment Serbia shared 10th place with Norway out of 38 European countries. […]
Agreements signed on financing sustainable development of seven Croatian cities
The Croatian Ministry of Regional Development and European Union Funds said it had secured more than EUR 300 million for the development of the seven biggest urban areas in the country. The agreements on implementing integrated territorial investments (the ITU Mechanism) were signed with representatives of the seven cities with a total of EUR 303.4 […]
Municipal waste management in Croatia – race against time
Even though the implementation of the Decree on the management of municipal waste was to begin in Croatia on February 1, it has not yet been fully implemented. Some cities have been classifying waste for several years now, while others are not ready yet – Zagreb, for example. The Decree came into force on November […]
Croatia has met 2020 energy targets, has a potential to become SEE energy hub
Croatia has a potential to become an energy hub for Southeast Europe, given its hydropower potential and abundance of solar and wind energy that is not exploited yet enough, said European Commission (EC) Vice-President for the Energy Union Maroš Šefčovič while visiting Croatia. The Commission Vice President explained that Croatia has the potential but if the […]
Construction of two new recycling yards in Croatia announced
Croatian municipalities Nuštar, in Vukovar-Srem County, and Kneževi Vinogradi, in Osijek-Baranja county, have received the European Union (EU) grants for the construction and equipping of recycling yards. Croatia’s minister for environment and energy and chairpersons of Nuštar and Kneževi Vinogradi municipalities signed a contract on EU grants for these projects, secured from the Cohesion Fund […]
