Macedonia still far from reaching goal in recycling packaging waste
Macedonia is still far from its goal of recycling 60 percent of packaging waste by the year 2020 and the Association of Secondary Raw Materials Collectors and Recyclers wants to increase its cooperation with local communal services companies to reach that goal. Association official Iko Bredaroski told a meeting at the Macedonian Chamber of Commerce […]
Second Energy Community Summer School launched today in Ohrid
Following the success of the first Energy Community (EnC) Summer School, which was held in Albania in 2016, this year’s summer program has been officially launched today in Ohrid. The EnC Summer School will last from 26 August 26 to September 2 and will be held in the Congress Center in Ohrid with study visits […]
Macedonia’s MEPSO planning to rehabilitate and modernize its power transmission grid
The Electricity Transmission System Operator of Macedonia AD MEPSO published tenders inviting proposals for goods and services for its project to rehabilitate and modernize its nation-wide power transmission grid along with a power system control project. The total investment in the projects is estimated to stand at EUR 40.5 million. The money to finance the […]
Regional conference on energy efficiency and EU-funded multEE project in Skopje
The Regional conference “Energy efficiency – data management” will be held on July 6 in Skopje where the results of the EU-funded Facilitating multi-level governance for Energy Efficiency (multEE) project will be presented. The main objective of the conference is to present the results and expectations of the multEE, a Horizon 2020 project that aims to improve […]
Participants of the second Energy Community Summer School are selected
The Energy Community Secretariat in consultation with a network of academic and research institutions of the participating countries has selected the participants of the second edition of the Energy Community Summer School, to take place in Ohrid in late summer this year. Following a call announced for the second Summer School in January 2017, 188 total […]
ELEM to expand its Bogdanci wind farm for additional 13.8 MW
It took only 16 wind turbines to cover about 2 percent of Macedonia’s production of electricity, so plans are underway for further expansion of wind power projects. Standing tall on the hills just east of the major border crossing between Macedonia and Greece, greeting the travelers on the E-75, are the only 16 wind turbines […]
Macedonian villages experiment with straw pellet heating
By Goce Trpkovski Farmers will be able to calculate through specially developed software whether it pays off for them to use straw pellets for their own heating, or it would be better for them to just turn their excess straw into pellets and sell them to others. Three of the environmental problems of rural Macedonia […]
MEPSO looking for consultant to assess impact of electric vehicles implementation
Electricity Transmission System Operator of Macedonia MEPSO has issued an invitation for expression of interest for a consultant to assess possible impact of electric vehicles implementation in Macedonia for the period of next 20 years. The main objective of the assignment is to prepare a study that is to investigate effects of plug-in electric vehicles […]