USD 350 million secured for 3 new units at EFELER, Turkey’s largest geothermal power plant
Turkey’s Gurmat Elektrik, a renewable energy subsidiary of Güriş Holding, has secured a USD 350 million financing package for three new units at EFELER, the country’s largest geothermal power plant, according to a joint press release from three major development banks. EFELER is located in western Turkey, in the region of the Buyuk Menderes Graben […]
Croatia’s HEP to install solar park near its lone coal-fired power plant
Croatian power utility Hrvatska Elektroprivreda (HEP) intends to install a 25 MW solar park in the area of the Kršan municipality, in the eastern part of the Istrian peninsula, the Glas Istre portal reported. Notably, HEP operates its only coal-fired power plant, Plomin, in this municipality. Mayor Valdi Runko said that the Kršan municipality and […]
Brave Women of Kruščica win EuroNatur Award for averting construction of 2 SHPPs
The Brave Women of Kruščica have won the EuroNatur Award for 2019 for their 500-day action that prevented the construction of two small hydropower plants (HPPs) in the village in Bosnia and Herzegovina. For more than 500 days and nights, a group of women from the village of Kruščica blocked a bridge crossing the river […]
Wind dominates Top 3 Most Read list for July
The news that Croatia’s state-owned power utility Hrvatska Elektroprivreda (HEP Group) is going ahead with its first wind farm was number-one on our English-language Top 3 Most Read list for July. The Top 3 Most Read list for July is also available for our portal’s Serbian/local language version. 1 – Nordex Group to supply turbines […]
Electricity market liberalization lowers prices by 32% in North Macedonia
The electricity market liberalization has decreased prices for small commercial customers by about 32%, said Marko Bislimoski, president of North Macedonia’s Energy Regulatory Commission, local media reported. These consumers became eligible to choose their supplier from January 1 this year, and they are using the opportunity. Bislimoski said that the price they paid before January […]
Enel CEO in Romania proposed for PPC’s new chief
Georgios Stassis, who currently serves as CEO and country manager for Italian energy company Enel in Romania, has been put forward for appointment as new CEO of Greece’s ailing majority state-owned Public Power Corporation (PPC), the Greek media has reported. Stassis, who had been with the Enel Group since 2007, would replace Manolis Panagiotakis, who […]
Romania, Slovenia among five countries eyeing new European Commission’s energy portfolio
Five EU member states, including Estonia, Latvia, Romania, Poland, and Slovenia, are interested in getting the energy portfolio in the next European Commission, HotNews.ro reported. The candidates for European energy commissioner are Kadri Simson from Estonia, Virginijus Sinkevicius, Linas Linkevicius or Saulius Skvernelis from Latvia, Luminita Odobescu from Romania, Krzysztof Szczerski from Poland, and Janez […]
Green for Growth Fund helps kids from Serbia compete in Canada
After Balkan Green Energy News appealed in early April for financial assistance to help kids from Serbia travel to Canada, its partner, the Green for Growth Fund (GGF), helped make this possible. The nine elementary and high school students from Belgrade had already made remarkable success in a global essay competition on achieving UN Sustainable […]