Vienna summit highlights energy projects, networking
Four regional power grid projects and three key measures for cooperation have been adopted at the Western Balkans Summit in Vienna on August 27, said Janez Kopač, Energy Community Secretariat’s director. He told Serbian portal Euractiv.rs that the European Union pledged EUR 200 million for this year for projects in energy and transport infrastructure. The […]
EU heating debate may bring cure for energy poverty
AEBIOM, the European Biomass Association, has decided to support initiatives for the development of bioenergy sector in the Danube region, the organization’s general secretary Jean-Marc Jossart told Balkan Green Energy News. “Last year we noticed a growing interest in Brussels and at the European Union level” for the objective, he said in an interview. An […]
Wind power deployment proportional to incentives
Turkey added 804 MW in wind turbine capacity last year, and ranked tenth in the global scale, European Commission’s Joint Research Center published in its third annual report, signed by Roberto Lacal Arántegui and Javier Serrano González. Nine countries in the first tier increased wind energy installations by more than 1 GW, led by China […]
Sustainable Energy Initiative mainstreams renewables
Under the framework of its Sustainable Energy Initiative, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development funded renewable energy generation with about EUR 4 billion between 2006 and the end of 2014, says Nandita Parshad, EBRD Director, Power and Energy Utilities. In an interview with Balkan Green Energy News, she underscored the challenges coming from changing […]
Very few of Vojvodina’s 78 geothermal wells utilized
Pannonian Plain countries, excluding Hungary, do not use enough of their geothermal potentials due to high costs of research, drilling, introduction of new technologies, purification systems and protection
Regional Alterenergy platform network enhances Renexpo
Small and medium enterprises from the Adriatic region, engaged in the sectors of energy saving and renewable energy, met in April at the Renexpo Western Balkans fair in Belgrade, during the business meeting opened with the Alterenergy strategic project – funded within the IPA Adriatic Cross-border Cooperation Programme 2007–2013, Alter-energy.eu website reported. There were more […]
First round of infrastructure projects receives EU funding
Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA) has signed 15 grant agreements for priority energy infrastructure projects, the first of 34 to receive a total of EUR 647 million under the European Union’s Connecting Europe Facility 2014 call for proposals, Investment.albaniaenergy.org portal said. The presentation of Albanian Centre for Energy Regulation and Conservation – Acerc, reported […]
Alterenergy board and steering committee meeting
Eight partnership meetings were already held within the Alterenergy strategic project. The last project management board and steering committee met in Ioannina on May 4 and 5, Alter-energy.eu website reported. Alterenergy has been launched in September 2011 to promote sustainability in 60 selected small Adriatic communities with less than 10.000 inhabitants. The Alterenergy partners have […]
