Slovenia boosts 2018 subsidies to fight climate change
The Slovenian government has adopted a revision of the 2018 budget of Eko Sklad, the public environmental fund managed by the Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning, increasing subsidies planned for 2018 as part of efforts to fight climate change, according to a press release from the government. Eko Sklad can now provide up […]
HSE shuts down another obsolete unit of coal-fired Šoštanj power plant
Slovenian state energy company Holding Slovenske Elektrarne (HSE) has shut down another environmentally and technologically outdated unit of the country’s largest coal-fired energy facility, the Šoštanj thermal power plant (TPP). The most recently closed unit of TPP Šoštanj, the 275 MW Unit 4, reached the end of its life after 46 years of operation, according […]
GEN-I secures EUR 20 million via bond issued on Ljubljana Stock Exchange
Electricity and gas trading group GEN-I has announced that it has successfully completed the simultaneous issue of a bond and a commercial paper. The issue of the bond has secured the company EUR 20 million, Nova Ljubljanska Banka (NLB) said on its website. GEN-I issued a 45-month bond with an annual interest rate of 2.4% […]
Postal operator Pošta Slovenije forges e-mobility partnership with energy trader GEN-I, seeks to fully electrify fleet
Slovenian state postal company Pošta Slovenije has signed an agreement on business cooperation in the field of e-mobility and green next-generation delivery solutions with energy trader GEN-I, with the aim of fully electrifying its fleet, according to a news release from Pošta Slovenije. The e-mobility partnership will enable people and businesses to deliver packages in […]
Maribor to get automated mixed municipal waste sorting facility in late June
Waste management company Snaga’s project to sort mixed municipal waste for recycling at a facility in Maribor was presented at a recently held international conference in the Slovenian city, which gathered mayors of Maribor’s sister cities at the invitation of Maribor Mayor Andrej Fištravec. Snaga’s fully-automated facility, to sort more than 50% of mixed municipal […]
HSE’s net profit plunges 56% in 2017 as electricity production shrinks 10%
Slovenian state power utility Holding Slovenske Elektrarne’s (HSE) net profit in 2017 dropped 56% against 2016, to EUR 19.7 million, as a result of a 10% year-on-year decrease in electricity production, according to HSE’s annual report. HSE’s total electricity production in 2017 was 7,034 GWh, down from 7,778 GWh in 2016. Output at HSE’s hydropower […]
Slovenia pays EUR 143.5 million in renewable energy subsidies in 2017
Slovenia paid EUR 143.5 million in subsidies to renewable energy producers in 2017, down 2% compared to 2016, the Ministry of Infrastructure said. The subsidized electricity output of a total of 3,864 facilities reached 944.9 GWh last year, a decrease of 6% against 2016. Of the total subsidy amount, the biggest chunk, EUR 70.9 million, […]
Slovenian – Croatian market coupling set for June 19
Croatian power exchange (CROPEX) and its Slovenian counterpart, BSP SouthPool, have announced they will merge on June 19 and join the rest of Europe through the Multi-regional Coupling (MRC) project. The launch is the finalization of day-ahead market coupling implementations on Slovenian borders and first implementation of implicit allocation for Croatian bidding zone, which will […]
