SEE parliamentarians visit Ljubljana – European Green Capital and regional leader in sustainable urban mobility
Slovenia has been for more than a decade a regional champion in the promotion of sustainable urban mobility in the region of South-East Europe. In particular its capital Ljubljana. No surprise, then, that the GIZ Open Regional Fund for South-East Europe – Energy Efficiency chose it for a study trip on urban mobility. Using a […]
EU Overshoot Day: 7% of world’s population uses nearly 20% of Earth’s biocapacity
If everybody in the world lived like EU residents, the world would have exhausted the Earth’s annual budget by May 10, which was the European Union’s Earth Overshoot Day 2019. Nature’s annual budget consists of food, fiber, timber, carbon absorption, and land to build infrastructure, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Central and Eastern […]
Voting begins for EUSEW 2019 Citizens’ Award
Voting has begun to decide which of the 12 finalists in the EU Sustainable Energy Awards’ competition will receive the 2019 Citizens’ Award. The awards are part of the EU Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW), organized by the European Commission (Directorate General for Energy and EASME), which will take place from June 17 to June 21. […]
Bulgaria scraps electricity export fee, enabling market coupling with North Macedonia
Bulgaria has amended its energy law to abolish a fee levied on exports of electricity, in what will remove obstacles to trade with Energy Community contracting parties in the Balkans and pave the way for the future market coupling with North Macedonia, the Energy Community Secretariat said in a statement welcoming the move. The amendments […]
SEE CAO appoints Ivan Bulatović as new executive director
Coordination Auction Office in South East Europe (SEE CAO) has appointed Ivan Bulatović as the new executive director, SEE CAO said in a news release. SEE CAO manages the coordinated explicit allocation of cross-border transmission capacities on six borders in SEE region. Ivan Bulatović has extensive experience in the field of power systems and has […]
Vienna Energy Transition Forum to be held on June 6-7
The Vienna Energy Transition Forum, convened by the Institute of Energy for SE Europe (IENE) in partnership with the Vienna-based Energy Centre Europe (ECE), is bringing together some of the most progressive energy specialists from across Europe to discuss the critical energy and environmental issues and how these can be tackled as the region enters […]
Energy Community releases Policy Guidelines on wholesale markets, power exchanges
At this moment not a single functioning regional power market is in place in the Energy Community (EnC) Contracting Parties, EnC Secretariat concludes in Policy Guidelines on increasing Competition and Liquidity of Wholesale Electricity Markets, including Power Exchanges. The document provides recommendations on the legal and regulatory measures. The document is a result of the […]
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 – […]