Green credit line approved for TSKB

International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group, said it was providing a USD 75 million (EUR 66.28 million) loan to the Industrial Development Bank of Turkey (TSKB), the country’s largest private investment and development bank, to boost lending for renewable energy and resource efficiency projects. The loan is expected to help develop […]

News October 21, 2015

New guide out for public policy on energy efficiency

The Society for Sustainable Development Design (DOOR), based in Zagreb, stated that a guidebook, called ’How to Participate Efficiently’, has been published covering the topic of public policy referring to energy efficiency. The brochure has been created in cooperation with six civil society organizations who implement the schools for political studies in South-East Europe, within the […]

First photovoltaic plant commissioned on local market

In the village of Gjurgjevik i Madh / Veliki Đurđević in Klina municipality, the Ministry of Economic Development (MED), Kosovo* Energy Distribution Services (KEDS), Energy Regulatory Office (ERO) and Slovenian company Rudis d. o. o. Trbovlje have commissioned the first electrical plant that generates energy from the solar panels. The investment was made by Rudis, […]

News October 21, 2015

Heat allocators save EUR 17 million

A study by Ista Romania, a company specialized in providing individual metering systems, shows that residents with heat allocators in their homes saved over EUR 17 million, Business Review’s website reported. Calculations were based on data from heating agent distributor Radet Bucharest, measured between October 2014 and April 2015. The cost is 31.4% lower than […]

News October 21, 2015

Energy efficiency certificate for new housing project

Enova, an independent certifying agency for residential buildings, issued an energy certificate for Miljacka project, which is being built in Sarajevo, developing company MS&Wood d. d. said. From 2013 the certificate is obligatory for all new objects and old public buildings. Units in Miljacka quarter, named after Sarajevo’s main river, have façade insulation 15 centimetres […]

News October 21, 2015

Developers ask for deadlines to be postponed

Forced to operate amid stifling conditions prompted by capital controls imposed in Greece in the summer, entrepreneurs in the renewable energy sources sector, presently unable to make progress on new investments and facing permit deadlines, have asked the government to stop the clock and resume the count once the currently abnormal banking restrictions have ended, […]

News October 20, 2015

MK-Fintel’s wind turbines arrive in Kula

After they were unloaded from barges in Apatin shipyard on the Danube in Serbia’s northwest, parts of three wind generators were transported 40 kilometres further to the construction site in the municipality of Kula, Večernje novosti newspaper’s portal said. Preparation works have been finished, according to MK-Fintel Wind a. d., the venture company which is […]

Renewables October 18, 2015