Serbia
Serbian environmental agency fires expert for protesting change in air quality criteria
29 December 2020 - Milenko Jovanović says SEPA agency harassed and fired him because he reacted after it loosened the standard for displaying the categories of air quality
DSO EPS Distribucija is no longer part of Elektroprivreda Srbije
29 December 2020 - The transfer of ownership is the end of the unbundling of the distribution system from EPS, which began five years ago.
Serbia starts coal phaseout in heating sector from 2021
28 December 2020 - The heating plant in Kragujevac will be converted from coal to gas, and boilers on solid fuels replaced in kindergartens, schools, health centers and households.
Kraljevo, Goč, Golija and SHPPs – Gambling with nature has no winners
25 December 2020 - The Right to Water initiative has organized a discussion on the nature protection, with an assessment of the harmful impact of run-of-river small hydropower plants.
Serbian prime minister: Rio Tinto’s jadarite mine investment is going as planed
23 December 2020 - Ana Brnabić denies the spatial plan for the project was adopted on insufficient grounds while locals claim it is illegitimate.
Serbia’s renewables incentive fee raised fivefold
21 December 2020 - The government has decided to increase the surcharge paid by consumers to fund renewable energy incentives from EUR 0.00079 per kWh to EUR 0.00371.
City of Subotica has new waterworks system, wastewater treatment unit
18 December 2020 - Subotica and its surrounding area expanded the sewerage network in a EUR 27 million project and added a sludge-to-energy unit and a water plant
New machinery helps building stone supplier Teko Mining cut CO2 emissions
16 December 2020 - Building stone supplier Teko Mining has procured new machinery through financing facility GEFF Serbia Leasing.
Serbia to spend EUR 1.5 billion in 2021 on energy efficiency, to cut pollution
16 December 2020 - Serbia will completely alter investment plans, prioritizing energy efficiency and the fight against pollution, Deputy Prime Minister Zorana Mihajlović said
Wind farms, solar power plants set to push coal out of market
04 December 2020 - Decision makers can slow down or speed up the coal phase-out, but regardless of their action, the coal share is heading for a big drop.
World Bank: Main sources of air pollution in Belgrade are heating, road transport, coal power plants
03 December 2020 - The largest sources of pollution are in the urban area - heating and road transport, but also outside the urban area - thermal power plants.
SO2 emissions from Nikola Tesla B coal plant to be reduced 20 times by 2024
02 December 2020 - One of the ten largest SO2 emitters among power plants in Europe starts the construcution of a flue gas desulphurization facility.
Rio Tinto’s lithium project in Serbia challenged over transboundary impact
01 December 2020 - CZŽS from BiH asked the state to determine the transboundary environmental impact of the lithium exploitation and processing project in Serbia
Excessive air pollution in Valjevo triggers Air Quality Alert
30 November 2020 - The air quality in Valjevo has been in the highest category, designated as "very polluted," ever since measuring began in 2012. According to official data, the city had the highest annual level of suspended particles PM10 and PM2.5 in Serbia last year.
Mali Zvornik in Serbia building biomass heating plant in EUR 2.35 million project
27 November 2020 - Two boilers of 900 kW each fueled by wood chips and a 2.5 MW spare unit on gas will provide heating in Mali Zvornik from next October
Belgrade University professors warn politicians failure to phase out coal will be more costly than any decarbonization measures
25 November 2020 - It will be more expensive for the country to did nothing to reduce CO2 emissions, than to implement decarbonization measures.