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 […]
Gazivode hydro resource important for Serbia’s EU chapters
The settlement of legal relations in connection to the hydropower plant Gazivode (Gazivodë) is an important moment for Serbia to start membership negotiations with the European Union, said Laszlo Varga, member of Serbian parliament from the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians and deputy chair of the Parliamentary Committee on EU Integration. He told Novi Sad–based Hungarian […]
Energy production from biomass with USD 1.6 million from UNDP
Businessmen interested in investing in the facilities for combined production of electric and thermal energy from biomass or biogas can count on USD 1.6 million (EUR 1.46 million) provided by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), officials at the Serbian Chamber of Commerce stated at a conference, Tanjug agency said. An individual donation per project […]
