Solar-powered bench glows at night, charges gadgets
Ivan Mrvoš, a 20-year old electrical engineering student from Solin near Split in Dalmatia, developed a prototype solar bench, with support by the municipal authority. The invention is shockproof, it is equipped with four chargers for mobile phones and tablets, and at night it is used as public lighting, portal Dalmacijanews.hr reported. The solar bench, […]
RWE teams up with HEP to tap on renewables’ potential
Novenerg, a 50-50 joint venture aiming to exploit the potential of renewable energy sources, was founded on July 1 by Germany’s RWE AG and Croatia’s national electricity company HEP Group. The project was started in order to strategically evaluate and analyse potentials of investment in power generation in the sector, with a focus on Southeastern […]
Mecasolar supplies horizontal trackers to solar plant
A total of 47 trackers, using 420 axes of up to 10.8 kW per axis, and 18,960 modules of 240 W nominal power will be installed by Mecasolar (Mecanizados Solares SL) in a new solar power project in Korkuteli in Antalya province. The company said the delivery of equipment of 4.5 MW to the facility […]
Memorandum signed for a CHP plant investment
Official website of the City of Kruševac said the local authority signed a cooperation memorandum concerning a future cogeneration plant with Building Energy 1, subsidiary of Building Energy from Milan, Italy, and local company Sinergy Invest. The construction and installation project is worth EUR 25 million, and the plan is to initially employ 30 to […]
Greece, Cyprus among top solar thermal markets in EU
Last year Greece had the biggest expansion of the capacities for solar thermal energy among the markets followed by Balkan Green Energy News, according to Solar Thermal and Concentrated Solar Power Barometer published by EurObserv’ER. The country added 189.4 MW of thermal power to top an overall capacity of 3 GW, making it third in […]
Regulator approves electric power price hike
The Energy Agency Council agreed to a price increase for electricity for Serbian households and small-scale customers that buy power at regulated costs, state-owned news agency Tanjug said. The tariffs from August 1 will be 4.4% higher on average, while the mean price increase for all buyers entitled to a regulated price will be 4.5%, not […]
Erste: Romania on hold, focusing on Croatia, Serbia
Due to the volatility of the incentive scheme and the continuous regulatory changes, the financing of new projects in Romania is not an option for the moment for Erste Group Bank AG, Markus Kriegler, its head of project finance, told SeeNews in an emailed interview. Erste is looking into backing mainly small hydro, biogas and […]
EBRD co-finances country’s largest geothermal plant
Güriş Holding subsidiary’s Efeler geothermal project put its fourth, 22.5 MW binary cycle unit into use and the company secured a USD 200 million (EUR 180.6 million) loan by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, alongside additional 15-year loans of EUR 293.52 million from Türkiye İş Bankası AŞ (İşbank), EUR 117.4 million from Turkiye […]