Future of energy comes from two workshop projects

Naser Miftari, high school teacher from Kumanovo in Macedonia, and his former student Bujar Dalipi, who studies applied sciences in the capital of Albania, invested two years of hard work in two endeavours, called Drita (Light) and BuNa, for which they were awarded. The duo feels these projects are the future of energy, a report […]

Environment commissioner seeks green Christmas

All local authorities received a letter, urging them to go green this Christmas, from the national environment commissioner Ioanna Panayiotou, Cyprus Mail reported. She said local self-government in Cyprus needs to keep energy-wasting decorations to a minimum. “Due to the economic crisis, thousands of our fellow citizens are deprived of the essentials and are experiencing […]

News November 22, 2015

Greece taken to court over energy performance

The European Commission said it has decided to refer Greece to the Court of Justice of the European Union over the government’s failure to comply with the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, as the only member state that did not perform the cost-optimal calculations and did not send a report. According to the directive, minimum […]

News November 19, 2015

Action plan for Belgrade won’t remain on paper

Citizens will be informed every year on the implementation of measures from the Assessment of Vulnerability to Climate Change and the Action Plan for Adaptation, Belgrade city manager Goran Vesić said at the presentation of the document. He underscored the authorities will not let the plan become a dead letter. Vesić reminded that Belgrade’s assembly […]

Panels cover up to 3,000 hectares of arable land

There hasn’t been a very large impact and a high rate of occupancy of agricultural land by photovoltaics, according to Zoltán Nagy-Bege from the Regulatory Authority for Energy (ANRE), who insisted this was his personal opinion, Nine o’Clock.ro reported. „For the time being, we have a little over 1,200 MW installed in photovoltaics, which means […]

News November 18, 2015

Energy Union report outlines national challenges

Bulgaria’s complex issues in the energy sector and lack of reforms had “compromised the financial stability of public and private stakeholders”, the European Union said in its first State of the Energy Union report, Sofia Globe revealed. The document, first of its kind, comes nine months after the EU adopted an Energy Union framework strategy […]

News November 18, 2015

IC İçtaş acquires Kadıncık hydropower plants

At a cost of TRY 864 million (EUR 283 million), hydro systems Kadıncık 1 and Kadıncık 2, located in Mersin in the south of the country, were bought at a tender by IC İçtaş Energy Investment Holding, Anadolu Agency’s Energy Terminal said. The installed capacity is 70 MW in Kadıncık 1 and 56 MW in […]

News November 17, 2015

HeSaLight wins public lighting deal in Herceg Novi

A company from Roskilde in Denmark was selected for the EUR 2.7 million project of public lighting overhaul for the Municipality of Herceg Novi in Montenegro’s southwest. HeSaLight A/S was the only bidder for the works with a deadline for implementation of 90 days and a warranty of ten years. The accepted price includes value-added […]

News November 17, 2015