158 MW Čibuk 1, Serbia’s largest wind farm, officially starts operations
Serbia’s largest wind farm, the 57-turbine Čibuk 1, has officially started operations today following a EUR 300 million investment. The wind farm with a maximum capacity of 158 MW generates power to supply 113,000 households and will displace 370,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year. Čibuk 1 is one of the wind farms whose output […]
TE-TO Pančevo to start combined heat, power generation in Q4 2020
The 200 MW Pančevo cogeneration power plant (TE-TO Pančevo) is expected to be built by 2020, and the combined production of heat and power (CHP) is scheduled to start in the last quarter of that year, said Aleksandar Antić, Serbia’s minister of mining and energy. Antić made the statement after meeting with Denis Fyodorov, Director […]
Investor pulls out of SHPP project after clashes on Mt. Stara Planina
Residents of the village of Topli Do on Mt. Stara Planina in Serbia clashed yesterday morning with security and workers accompanying investor Dragan Josić in an attempt to start the construction of a small hydropower plant (SHPP). The outcome was the investor’s announcement he was pulling out of the project, as well as that he […]
Beo Čista Energija gets feed-in tariffs for two power plants under Vinča landfill project
Beo Čista Energija, a special purpose vehicle for the implementation of Belgrade’s Vinča landfill project, has received privileged producer status for its two future cogeneration plants. It means the company will receive feed-in tariffs for the production of heat and power in these facilities. Beo Čista Energija will build a power plant fueled by landfill […]
Working group set up for Vojvodina to get first geothermal power plants
A working group to facilitate the development of the first geothermal power plant projects in Serbia’s northern province of Vojvodina has been set up. The working group was established last week at the invitation of the Vojvodina Secretariat for Energy, Construction, and Transport and France’s ES-Geothermie, which offers general contracting services for the development of […]
Contracts signed to finance switching two Serbian heating plants to biomass
Heating plants in six municipalities in Serbia will receive EUR 26.7 million to switch from fossil fuels – coal and heating oil – to biomass, the Ministry of Mining and Energy said on its website. The first two municipalities to get new heating plants will be Priboj and Mali Zvornik, by the of 2022. The […]
Electric scooter sharing app Flow to be available in Belgrade in 2020
Romanian electric scooter sharing app Flow will be offered in Belgrade, Serbia in 2020, according to Bogdan Enoiu, managing director of marketing communications agency McCann Erickson Romania and manager of the Flow business, the Romanian media reports. Flow also plans expansion to Croatia and Israel, Enoiu told Profit.ro. The Flow app, whose main competition in Bucharest, Romania […]
EBRD approves EUR 72.25 million loan for Belgrade’s Vinča landfill project
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has approved a EUR 72.25 million loan for the Belgrade’s Vinča landfill project, while arranging a syndicated loan of EUR 35 million for the account of participants. The Bank will also mobilize EUR 21 million in concessional finance funded by TaiwanICDF. The EBRD financing will be part […]