Metka’s subsidiary wins international contracts
Athens-listed firm Metka said its subsidiary Metka EGN has signed contracts for turn-key engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) as well as the operation and maintenance of seven photovoltaic power production units with a total capacity of over 116 MW in Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom. The contracts add up to EUR 112 million, the […]
Greentech launches polyethylene recycling plant
With the completion of the facility for hot-washing PET flakes, and the lines for waste water treatment and polyethylene recycling, Greentech d. o. o. launched the factory worth EUR 5 million in Mladenovo near Bačka Palanka. The project in Serbia’s northwest started in 2013 and it employs 130 people. Stana Božović, state secretary in the […]
New Energy Balance methodology – Enhancing Macedonia energy reporting capabilities
By Tatjana Mitevska, M&E, Public Outreach and Gender Specialist, USAD CEI Project and Marija Ignatova Gjosheva, LED Specialist, USAID CEI Project, Winrock International Recently, Macedonia improved the quality of its energy balance with introduction of new methodology for energy data collection and processing harmonized with EUROSTAT. This is resulting in enhanced capabilities of Government of […]
The big green challenge: can we change fast enough?
By Maja Turković, Energy Consultant, co-author of the CIRSD study ’A Roadmap for Deploying Renewable Energy Sources in Serbia and the Regional Perspective’ Fossil fuels have been harnessed as an abundant and easily accessible source of energy for two centuries. This cheap energy enabled the growth of populations and consumption levels; and facilitated technological innovations […]
Green jobs potential in Macedonia
This article has been developed as per the assessment of the climate change mitigation potential within the Macedonian Intended Nationally Determined Contributions on Climate Change to the UNFCCC by a group of authors: Prof. Dr. Neven Duić, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb, Prof. Dr. Nataša Markovska, Research Center for Energy […]
Energy development stands above politics
Countries in the region, and generally in Europe, have strained budgets because of economic and political difficulties, so investments in green energy can be spurred through public–private partnership, Aleksandra Tomić, President of the Committee on Economy, Regional Development, Trade, Tourism and Energy at the National Assembly of Republic Serbia, told Balkan Green Energy News. She […]
Green energy boost comes with policy improvement
By Katarina Uherova Hasbani, Energy Policy and Business Development Consultant, EIR Global and the lead author of REN21 UNECE Renewable Energy Status Report in 2015 E-mail: kuhasbano@eirglobal.eu South East Europe stays on the margins of global renewable energy investment despite its proximity to EU market Seventeen countries of South East and East Europe, the Caucasus, […]
UNDP publishes country snapshots on climate change
By Christoph S. Henrich, Sustainable Energy Consultant, Istanbul Regional Hub, United Nations Development Programme in Europe and Central Asia E-mail: christoph.henrich@undp.org One problem of the international climate change debate is that the information presented in technical documents, such as in national communications that are submitted by parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), […]
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