Region/EU
EU awards EUR 9 million to four sustainable transport projects in Bulgaria, Greece, Slovenia
18 April 2024 - The EU has awarded EUR 424 million to 42 sustainable transport projects including one in Bulgaria, two in Slovenia, and one in Greece
EU triples number of EV chargers in three years
18 April 2024 - The EU has recorded a threefold increase in the number of electric vehicle public chargers, according to T&E's new analysis
Development Bank of Austria invests EUR 19.8 million in GGF
18 April 2024 - The Green for Growth Fund (GGF) and the Development Bank of Austria (OeEB) have announced an investment of EUR 19.8 million
Governments, firms pledge support for solar manufacturing with EU Solar Charter
17 April 2024 - A hundred representatives of the European solar sector and energy ministers from 23 member states have signed the EU Solar Charter
Greece’s PPC sets its sights on Italy, Croatia in tandem with Mytilineos
16 April 2024 - Public Power Corp. – PPC is about to pay out the first dividend in a decade and is widening the scope of its regional expansion
SEE CAO appoints new executive director
15 April 2024 - Until January 2024 the executive director of SEE CAO was Ivan Bulatović from Montenegro
ACER urges TSOs to make 70% of cross-border power transmission capacity available by end-2025
15 April 2024 - ACER said most EU member states are far below the minimum 70% capacity margin available for cross-zonal electricity trading
Hybrid energy-agriculture cooperatives: Passe-partout key to unlock a community-led net-zero future
15 April 2024 - Unleashing the untapped potential of bioenergy in communities is of uttermost importance to decarbonise hard-to-abate sectors, such as heating, cooling and heavy transport, but, most of all, it opens the door to the development of hybrid energy-agriculture cooperative
Vienna, Budapest inaugurate green hydrogen plants
12 April 2024 - Within just a few days, two green hydrogen plants were inaugurated in Central and Eastern Europe - in Austria and Hungary
European Parliament passes electricity, gas market reform
12 April 2024 - European lawmakers adopted the energy market design reform proposal to facilitate decarbonization and ease the impact of sharp price swings
Heating without burning: how cities can accelerate the heat transition away from fossil fuels
12 April 2024 - Cities have the power to reduce heating emissions on a large scale, through proactive planning and by adopting collective solutions like decarbonized district heating.
Historic ruling of European Court of Human Rights: Climate protection is human right
11 April 2024 - The Swiss Senior Women for Climate Protection association has achieved a historic victory at the European Court of Human Rights
Europe’s largest solar farm Witznitz commissioned in eastern Germany
11 April 2024 - Hansainvest and developer Move On inaugurated the Witznitz solar park of 605 MW in peak capacity on coal land near Leipzig in Germany
EU investigating China’s wind turbine subsidies
10 April 2024 - The European Commission is expanding its efforts to protect the domestic high-tech market with a crackdown on China's wind turbine subsidies
Serbia, Hungary, Slovenia sign deal to merge their power exchanges
09 April 2024 - Hungary, Serbia and Slovenia signed an agreement to integrate their electricity exchanges under Adex Group
Cannibalization in SEE to make solar power prices 40% to 50% lower than wind, wholesale prices
09 April 2024 - The trends for wholesale baseload prices and renewables capture prices for 2025-2060 are similar, according to Aurora Energy Research