10 hydro power plants to be privatized in Turkey during summer
Turkey has decided to privatize 10 hydro power plants (HPP) with total capacity of 256.4 MW, currently owned by the Electricity Generation Company (EUAS). The final offers for the state-owned hydro plants are to be submitted in August, according to the High Privatization Board (OYK) ‘s website, the Anadolu agency’s Energy terminal reported. Deadline for […]
Memorandum of cooperation on construction of HPP Buk Bijela signed
The Government of the Republic of Srpska (RS) and the China National Aero-Technology International Engineering Corporation (AVIC-ENG) have signed the Memorandum of cooperation on the construction of hydropower plant (HPP) Buk Bijela on the river Drina, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Memorandum of cooperation was signed on July 6, by the Bosnian Serb entity’s Minister of […]
Italian Enel starts to build largest wind power complex in Greece
Italian Enel, through its Greek renewables subsidiary Enel Green Power Hellas (EGPH), has started construction of the Kafireas wind power complex on the Island of Evia, the second largest island in Greece. Once completed, the new facility will be the largest wind farm in Greece with total installed capacity of 154 MW. Enel will invest […]
Tender for co-financing of smart electricity meters in Slovenia
The Slovenian Ministry of Infrastructure published a tender for the co-financing of smart electricity meters for the 2017-2022 period. The aim of the tender is to secure financing for grants to purchase and install smart power meters as part of the Operational Program for the Implementation of the European Cohesion Policy for the period 2014-2020. […]
Bosnian power exchange to be established with seat in Mostar
Croatian power exchange CROPEX and Bosnian power utility, Elektroprivreda HZ Herceg Bosne (EPHZHB), have expressed support to the establishment of power exchange in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and readiness to provide assistance to the Independent System Operator (NOSBiH) as the bearer of activities of the future power exchange. The seat of Bosnian power exchange will be in […]
Minister Trivan: cooperation with CSOs and media very important for reaching environmental goals
Serbia can make a big leap both in practice and political aspect in the field of environment, Minister of Environmental Protection of Serbia Goran Trivan said stressing the importance of civil society and the media in this process. He announced that the newly established Ministry of Environmental Protection will be more open to the civil […]
Republic of Srpska waiting for waste management strategy
The draft Strategy on waste management has been submitted to the Republika of Srpska Parliament for adoption and has won unanimous support among MPs, RS Spatial Planning, Civil Engineering and Ecology Srebrenka Golić said in a meeting with Swedish Ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina Anders Hagelberg. The ambassador said the Republic of Srpska has taken positive steps […]
Final Facilitating multi-level governance for Energy Efficiency (multEE) project conference held in Vienna
The GIZ Open Regional Fund for South-East Europe – Energy Efficiency (ORF-EE), in collaboration with its Facilitating multi-level governance for Energy Efficiency (multEE) project consortium partners and the Energy Community Secretariat, held the Final multEE Project Conference on June 29 in Vienna. The conference attracted government officials from nine multEE partner countries, as well as […]