Reforms, forest quality conversion needed for biomass suply
Official information from public sources about forests in Serbia, most importantly from the national inventory from nine years ago, has a lot of discrepancy and data varies very much, even up to six times in some important categories, said Nenad Petrović, a docent at Faculty of Forestry in Belgrade. One of the main reasons, in […]
IFC investment in ABank for SMEs’ energy efficiency
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, announced a USD 97 million (EUR 85.17 million) financing package to ABank, to increase lending to energy efficiency and renewable energy projects in order to boost sustainable energy investment in Turkey and support micro, small, and medium enterprises, which are essential for economic development and job creation. […]
HEP, EPS eye acquisitions abroad, EPCG possible target
Croatian state-owned power utility HEP and its Serbian peer EPS are eyeing acquisitions abroad and Montenegrin energy firm EPCG is seen as a possible target, Zagreb-based news daily Večernji list said, as reported by SeeNews portal. The Montenegrin government is the majority owner of EPCG with a 57% stake while Italian company A2A owns 41.75%. […]
All clients getting power metering devices by early 2016
Electricity distribution operator Oshee has invested in the sector of power consumption’s measurement for the acquisition of 50,000 metering devices, and plans to equip all its customers by early next year, Albanian Telegraphic Agency said, as quoted by Albreporter.info portal. Sources from the Ministry of Energy and Industry announce they are working to ensure a […]
Una–Sana Canton prioritizes investment in efficiency
Tamir Nuhić, minister for construction, spatial planning and the environment of Una–Sana Canton of western Bosnia, said the authorities plan to work on energy efficiency measures on seven objects in the territory, in a BAM 1 million (EUR 511,000 project) with municipalities and the United Nations Development Programme, Energetika.ba reported. „Currently we spend BAM 8.7 […]
Juncker plan contributes to winning energy battle of Crete
A project to interconnect the island of Crete to the mainland’s electricity system that was proposed over 20 years ago could now be implemented using private investments to utilise the European Fund for Strategic Investment (EFSI), said Anastassios Kallitsantsis, the vice chairman of the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV), Neurope.eu portal reports. “This project has […]
Spatial plan passed for potential EUR 1.1 billion investment
After six months of controversy and even an announcement of a referendum, that was then given up on, Novi Vinodolski Municipality Council members raised hands for wind generators, Rijeka-based Novi list newspaper’s portal reported. Key were three councillors from the Croatian People’s Party – Liberal Democrats (HNS) who at the previous session were opposed to […]
Government cancels contracts for 30 hydro plants
Licenses for the construction and use of 30 power plants throughout Albania were cancelled by the country’s government for their „failure to meet obligations,“ after members of the European Parliament called on it to reconsider the plans. Prime minister Edi Rama’s cabinet earlier scrapped several such systems that were approved in the last meetings of […]
