Earth Hour dominates Top 3 in March, followed by district heating op-ed, solar auctions
In only a day, the article announcing Earth Hour this past weekend shot up to the number one spot on our English-language Top 3 Most Read list for March. The list is also available for our portal’s Serbian/local language version. 1 – Earth Hour 2019 switch-off People and businesses around the world were invited to […]
HSE appoints new director general, COO
Slovenia’s power company Holding Slovenske Elektrarne (HSE) has appointed Stojan Nikolić as the new director general and Viktor Vračar as the chief operating officer, while Boštjan Markoli was elected as a new president of the Supervisory Board. The former director general Matjaž Marovt resigned at the end of the January, while the former president of […]
Boris Granovsky named CEO of project company to develop Plandište wind farm
Boris Granovsky (42) has been appointed as CEO of a project company to develop the 102 MW Plandište wind farm in the Serbian municipality of Plandiste, according to a press release from Serbia-based oil company NIS, majority owned by Russia’s Gazprom. NIS is developing the wind farm together with MET Renewables. The goal is to […]
BELEN selects Nord Pool as partner to establish Montenegrin day-ahead power market
Berza Električne Energije (BELEN), the power exchange company of Montenegro, has selected Nord Pool as a partner to create the first competitive Montenegrin day-ahead power market, which is expected to be operational in 2020. The cooperation will include support to establish processes and procedures required to operate a national day-ahead market in Montenegro, market coupling […]
Earth Hour 2019 switch-off this Saturday March 30 at 8:30 pm
On Saturday, March 30 at 8:30 pm local time, skylines around the world will go dark as millions of people celebrate Earth Hour to show their commitment to protect the planet, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said in a press release. As nature declines like never before, coupled with the ever-present challenge of […]
Government defiant on Tuzla 7 coal project, as Energy Community launches dispute settlement procedure
The Energy Community Secretariat has sent an Opening Letter to Bosnia and Herzegovina for non-compliance with the state aid acquis regarding the Tuzla 7 project, in what is the first step in the dispute settlement procedure. In the meantime, Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations of BiH Mirko Šarović said that the new unit […]
Croatia heads to WindEurope 2019 Conference & Exhibition in force
The WindEurope 2019 Conference & Exhibition, the old continent’s largest and leading wind energy event this year, will gather representatives of key European institutions and companies in the sector in Bilbao, Spain from April 2 to 4. Minister of Environmental Protection and Energy Tomislav Ćorić will be the first Croatian minister ever to address the […]
Eight Croatian, Cypriot cities enter energy efficiency competition under C4S project
Four Croatian cities – Zadar, Rijeka, Osijek, and Velika Gorica, and four Cypriot cities – Agios Athanasios, Lakatamia, Aradippou, and Paralimni – are among those taking part in the European energy-saving competition under the Compete4SECAP project (C4S). The project, funded under the Horizon 2020 program, is also being implemented in Latvia, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, […]