Top 3 Most Read articles in January
The Top 3 Most Read articles on Balkan Green Energy News in January are in. The list is also available for the Serbian-language version of the website. The list is dominated by interviews this time around. 1 – Tendering ahead for renewable energy projects, premiums in Macedonia The most read article concerns the Government of […]
Organic food ad features Belgrade as a city it could be
Earlier this week the world’s most polluted major city according to AirVisual’s rankings, Belgrade was recently featured as a green city in German supermarket chain Penny’s viral organic food ad. The virtual greenery transformed even New Belgrade’s brutalism into a fairytale environment for a healthy lifestyle and an overall good mood. In the ad, Nena, […]
Serbia planned to own 51%, Republika Srpska 49% of HPPs Foča, Paunci in 1st phase
Elektroprivreda Republike Srpske (ERS), the power utility of Republika Srpska (RS), an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), will set up a concession company shortly to enter into contractual relations with Serbia’s public power utility Elektroprivreda Srbije (EPS) with the aim of the RS and Serbia building the Foča and Paunci hydropower plants (HPP), said […]
AirVisual – an app increasingly used in the region to monitor air pollution
Much has been said about the effects – both good and bad – that smart devices have on the quality of life, but one app is certainly helping raise awareness about the quality of air people breathe, and increasingly so in the region. In turn, awareness of the issue is starting to impact the public […]
Blockchain brings disruption to energy sector
The use of blockchain in the energy sector of Serbia, as well as other countries, would help introduce prosumers – households both producing and consuming electricity and selling surpluses without energy companies as intermediaries. Through the Internet of Things (IoT), it would also enable end consumers to manage their consumption via smart devices and energy […]
Thousands of protesters demand halt of SHPP construction from government, Serbian President
A few thousand citizens from all over Serbia gathered at Belgrade’s Faculty of Philosophy square to rally with a single demand – the immediate halt of the construction of small hydropower plants (SHPPs). The organizer of the rally, the Defend the Rivers of Mt. Stara Planina movement has submitted a request for the construction of […]
Green Living Concept transforming residential construction
Novi Sad-based Erker Inženjering is providing its tenants with living conditions to be envied. The Green Living Concept was first introduced in the residential building on Vojvode Šupljikca Street in Novi Sad, with the idea to apply it to all of the company’s future projects. Green oases on top of high-rise buildings are no news […]
Ne Davimo Beograd initiative: Decision on contents of waste incinerator study annulled
Following a complaint filed by the Ne Davimo Beograd initiative, the Government of Serbia has annulled the Ministry of Environmental Protection’s decision determining the scope and contents of environmental impact assessment for a project to build a waste incinerator in the Belgrade suburb of Vinča, ordering a repeat of the procedure, according to a press […]