Birds, bats and wind power: understanding risks
“The biggest thing we get from a cumulative impact assessment is for developers to share data, and this is a major win for the environmental community, because usually most are shy to do so,” Lori Anna Conzo, International Finance Corporation’s environmental specialist, told Balkan Green Energy News at an event on wind power. She participated […]
Vestas receives 83 MW order for Yahyalı wind park
Bak Enerji Uretimi A. Ş. is buying equipment for its wind project in Turkey from Vestas Wind Systems A/S. The order for the Yahyalı project comprises the supply and installation of 25 of V126-3.3 MW wind turbine units as well as a 10-year active output management (AOM) 4000 service agreement, Vestas said. Delivery of 83 […]
Mecasolar supplies 1 MW in 2-Axis trackers
A new solar project in Miroslava, 400 kilometres north of Bucharest, has been powered with 97 dual axis trackers produced by Mecasolar (Mecanizados Solares SL) from Fustiñana, Spain, the company said in a press release. One of the biggest photovoltaic power plants in the country will be connected to the grid at the end of […]
Energy efficiency measures in Plovdiv kindergartens
The Municipality of Plovdiv intends using part of the proceeds of a grant from the Kozloduy International Decommissioning Support Fund (KIDSF), administered by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and its own funds towards the cost of energy efficiency in public buildings, EBRD said. The local authorities invited sealed tenders from contractors for energy […]
KfW to lend EUR 47.5 million for renewable energy projects
Vjekoslav Bevanda, deputy chair of the Council of Ministers and minister of finance and treasury, signed a financial cooperation agreement worth EUR 48 million with Christian Hellbach, ambassador of Germany in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bevanda said the deal enables withdrawal of EUR 47.5 million through favourable loans and EUR 500,000 of grant funds, of which […]
EPCG installs submarine power cable in Bay of Kotor
By installing an undersea cable between the capes of Opatovo and Sveta Neđelja in the Bay of Kotor, national energy company EPCG completed an investment worth EUR 250.000. LDU Tivat completed the project of laying the new 35 kV submarine link Opatovo – Sveta Neđelja, around 500 meters long, with the conductor’s cross-section of 240 […]
CHP plant to be added to pellet facility by end-2016
Bioenergy Point, part of businessman Zoran Drakulić’s Point Group Int, started the construction of a cogeneration facility in Boljevac which will run on waste from the company’s local wood pellet production plant, Večernje novosti newspaper said. Drakulić had announced the EUR 2 million investment in May last year. The electricity would be used for the […]
Sečanj municipality seeks bids for public lighting system
Sečanj municipality started a public procurement process aiming to hire a private partner to provide services of public lighting overhaul, to install, maintain and manage a wireless-controlled LED system. “We offered a model of paying the private partner monthly from our budget during the 12 years of the contract duration,” Novak Zubac, head of the […]
