Project scrapped to build HPP Hrastje-Mota over negative environmental impact
The Slovenian government has halted preparations to produce a national spatial plan (DPN) for the Hrastje-Mota hydropower plant (HPP), the first that was planned on the Mura river. Numerous NGOs, which had been opposing the construction of the HPP over its negative environmental impact, welcomed the decision. However, the project developer, HSE Group, said that […]
Slovenia’s HSE Group books EUR 11.8 million loss in 2018
Slovenia’s HSE Group, which includes state power utility Holding Slovenske Elektrarne (HSE), logged a EUR 11.8 million loss in 2018, compared to a EUR 8.21 million profit in 2017, mainly due to the impairment of the Šoštanj thermal power plant (TEŠ) operator’s assets, according to the group’s annual report. Had it not been for the […]
Eco Fund expands biomass heating grants program to entire Slovenia, cuts EV subsidies
Slovenia’s Environmental Public Fund (Eco Fund or Eko Sklad) has issued a new call for grants to vulnerable citizens for the replacement of old heating devices in residential buildings with new, energy-efficient wood biomass heating, while extending the program to the entire country, according to an announcement on the website of the Ministry of Environment […]
Photovoltaic power plants in Slovenia
Authors: Dunja Jandl (Partner) and Urša Jozelj (Associate) at CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz – Slovenian branch Slovenia offers great potential for exploiting photovoltaic energy due to evenly spread solar irradiation. The first photovoltaic power plant in Slovenia was set up in 2001. At the end of 2017, 4,231 photovoltaic power plants had been installed in Slovenia […]
Slovenia pays EUR 135 million in renewable energy, CHP subsidies in 2018
Slovenia’s support payments for electricity from renewable energy sources and high-efficiency cogeneration (combined heat and power – CHP) reached EUR 135.1 million in 2018. The largest amount, EUR 62.8 million, was paid to owners of solar power plants, while fossil fuel CHP generated the biggest share of energy – 320.5 GWh. According to Slovenian power […]
Slovenia’s Kobarid eyes solar, heat pumps for energy self-sufficiency
The Slovenian municipality of Kobarid is eyeing an uptake in renewable energy self-supply to ensure environmental sustainability that would, in turn, foster tourism development in the town immortalized in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms. Kobarid, Slovenia’s westernmost municipality, is looking to gradually achieve energy self-sufficiency with the aim of surpassing the EU’s target of […]
EEX to introduce Bulgarian, Slovenian, Serbia power futures on June 3
On June 3, the European Energy Exchange (EEX) will expand its product range on the derivatives market with new power futures for the Bulgaria, Slovenia and Serbia market areas, EEX said on its website. Clearing and settlement of the new products will be carried out by European Commodity Clearing (ECC). The listing of the new […]
EIF backs Slovenia’s Resalta with EUR 6 million
The European Investment Fund (EIF), part of the EIB Group, will provide EUR 6 million of new equity capital to the innovative Slovenian provider of energy efficiency solutions Resalta. This capital increase will help Resalta evolve from being a start-up and implement a business plan to become a major provider of independent energy services and […]