Is PPP an effective tool for implementing energy related projects?
Authors: Andrea Zubović-Devedžić, Partner, and Indir Osmić, Attorney at Law, CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz – BiH branch INTRODUCTION Trying to find your way through public-private partnership (PPP) legislation in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) may seem like navigating a maze. With 12 different laws at multiple levels of government, all quite similar yet none the same, the situation […]
Verbund discontinues last coal-fired energy plant in Austria; eyes hydrogen
Government-owned Verbund switched the Mellach coal-fired heat and power unit to a backup role, ending all regular electricity supply from the fossil fuel to the grid in Austria as it studies applications for green hydrogen. As high temperatures shortened the heating season, the Mellach cogeneration facility, which covered most of the district heating in Graz, […]
5 ways lobbyists are using COVID-19 to weaken EU environmental laws
Are EU environmental laws and the European Green Deal really at stake because of the COVID-19 pandemic? Lobby groups in Brussels are doing their best to diminish them, Anton Lazarus, Communications Manager at European Environmental Bureau (EEB), says in his article and lists five examples of how corporate lobbyists asked for the suspension of crucial […]
KOSTT: ENTSO-E backs Kosovo’s* exit from control block lead by Serbia’s EMS
The vote on the new connection agreement between Kosovo’s transmission system operator (TSO) KOSTT and ENTSO-E was successfully concluded by the Regional Group of Continental Europe (RGCE), KOSTT has announced. RGCE is one of the five permanent regional groups or synchronous areas within ENTSO-E, the European Network of Transmission System Operators. With the vote and […]
Earth Day goes digital, individual on 50th anniversary – join on April 22
A range of artistic projects, initiatives in the making and seminars are on the world map for Earth Day. The movement spread to the global scene in 1990 and this time the event is focused on networking and personal contribution. Even if it wasn’t ready for the coronavirus pandemic, humanity must be prepared for the […]
Carbon emissions dip with coronavirus but climate change isn’t going away
Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels are about to fall by a record 5% this year or more as the COVID-19 pandemic almost ground the economy to a halt worldwide. Still, pollution must be lowered sustainably – the rebound after the coronavirus crisis will return greenhouse gases to previous levels, climate change experts warn. Air […]
CE Oltenia suspending 13,000 workers as sales drop amid COVID-19
The government in Bucharest is paying employees on a leave of absence 75% of gross salary for the duration of the state of emergency. CE Oltenia, already strained by carbon emissions costs, introduced a minimum staffing scheme and sent the first of two groups of workers home for 17 workdays. Romania must introduce measures to […]
Contractor picked for biomass heating plant project in Priboj
A group spearheaded by Energotehnika Južna Bačka is due to replace outdated equipment in the town in southwest Serbia as works are scheduled to start in the autumn and last one year. KfW and the Swiss government are financing the switch of district heating systems to biomass in Priboj and five other municipal units. The […]
