Seepex aims launch of day-ahead market by end-November

Operator of electric power exchange for Serbia and Southeastern Europe was signed up at the Business Registers Agency, state-owned electricity grid operator EMS said. Regulation and application procedure for future members will be known by the end of August, and the system’s testing is scheduled for September, the press release said. South Eastern European Power […]

Seepex power exchange targets launch by end-year

Serbia’s day-ahead Southeast European Power Exchange (Seepex) is targeting a launch in November or December this year, the press office of European Power Exchange (Epex Spot), told SeeNews in an email. Epex Spot is developing the project in partnership with Serbian state-owned electricity grid operator EMS. EMS director Nikola Petrović had earlier told SeeNews the […]

Energy policy key to climate change mitigation

“This is perhaps the last opportunity for our generation to reach an agreement on climate change and sustainable development in order to preserve the planet and the quality of life,” Vuk Jeremić, president of Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD), said at a public debate on climate change and energy in the residence […]

Fintel secures financing, permit for wind parks

Energobalkan DOO signed a contract with Unicredit Bank Serbia for financing La Piccolina wind farm of 6,6 MW, located in Vršac, operator’s parent company Fintel Energia Group SpA said in a press release. The Italian independent power producer added that the total amount of the loan is equal to EUR 7 million, while the required […]

Consultant to be hired for Kostolac wind park project

EPS (Electric Power Industry of Serbia), state-owned utility, is completing the bidding process for a consultant on a feasibility study and concept design. It is for the Kostolac wind park project in the eponymous municipality of the same name. The area east of capital Belgrade has a thermal power plant, also of the same name, […]

Birds, bats and wind power: understanding risks

“The biggest thing we get from a cumulative impact assessment is for developers to share data, and this is a major win for the environmental community, because usually most are shy to do so,” Lori Anna Conzo,  International Finance Corporation’s environmental specialist, told Balkan Green Energy News at an event on wind power. She participated […]

CHP plant to be added to pellet facility by end-2016

Bioenergy Point, part of businessman Zoran Drakulić’s Point Group Int, started the construction of a cogeneration facility in Boljevac which will run on waste from the company’s local wood pellet production plant, Večernje novosti newspaper said. Drakulić had announced the EUR 2 million investment in May last year. The electricity would be used for the […]