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
Floods highlight renewable energy market opportunities
As Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia continue to rebuild after the devastating floods of 2014, renewable energy development opportunities are popping up left and right, RenewableEnergyWorld.com portal’s contributor Ilias Tsagas wrote in an analysis. The Balkan region has enormous renewable energy potential but to date progress has been hindered by financing, weak legislation and […]
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 […]
International remedies for foreign investors in renewables
International investors who have suffered losses in the renewable energy sectors in Greece, Romania and Bulgaria, among others, may be entitled to compensation for their losses under the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) and relevant bilateral investment treaties (BITs), lawyers recommended. Headed by Baiju S. Vasani, the team from global law firm Jones Day published an […]
Heating market emerging, but needs policy support
In the Balkan countries and in Turkey the energy policy is focused on fossil and nuclear energy sources rather than on renewables, says Heinz Kopetz, president of the World Bioenergy Association (WBA)