Governments should establish nation-wide energy efficiency programmes
Achieving results in energy efficiency is not a question of available financing instruments, but a matter of creditworthiness of households and their disposable income for energy efficiency improvements, Violeta Kogalniceanu, Head of the Infrastructure and Energy Efficiency Unit at the Energy Community Secretariat, says in an interview with Balkan Green Energy News. According to her, […]
Internship Opportunity at Balkan Green Energy News
The Center for Promotion of Sustainable Development (CPOR), a civil society organization, is looking for an Intern for Balkan Green Energy News, the region’s leading sustainable energy and green economy news provider publishing in both English and Serbian, recently selected as one of 42 projects globally – and the only from South-East Europe (SEE) – to compete […]
KEDS launches power grid digitalization under EUR 4 million project
Kosovo’s* distribution system operator (DSO) KEDS has launched a EUR 4 million project for the electricity network digitalization using a SCADA system, equipped with state-of-the-art technology. The digitalization project will secure digital grid monitoring and control from the central office in Priština, KEDS said in a press release. The project will reduce and shorten power outages, […]
Revised strategy calls for setting up Timber Exchange
The revised forest and forestry development strategy for 2014-2023, adopted by the Montenegrin government last week, envisages setting up a Timber Exchange. The document is aligned with the new concept of reorganizing the country’s forest concession system. The revised forest and forestry development strategy’s key goal is to improve the condition of all forests in […]
Heating plant in Banja Luka – domestic technology puts city on map of green cities
The implementation of the Eko Toplane Banja Luka district heating project, which uses a renewable energy source (RES), specifically wood chips, places the city on the Vrbas river on the map of smart and green cities of the region and Europe. Using biomass, i.e. wood chips, secures the financial security and sustainability of the project, […]
Belgrade seeks bids to build sections of water supply, sewerage networks worth about EUR 1 million
The City of Belgrade has launched tendering for projects to design and build a section of the water supply network in the residential area of Ledine and a portion of the sewerage network on Vinogradska Street in the municipality of New Belgrade, Assistant Mayor Andreja Mladenović has said, noting that the estimated value of the two […]
Montenegro launching Energy Efficient Home program, seeking consultants for MEEP 2
Montenegro’s Ministry of Economy has said that it is launching the Energy Efficient Home program, aimed at cutting household heating costs and improving indoor comfort improvement, reducing CO2 emissions in the household sector, and developing a biomass heating system market in Montenegro. The Energy Efficient Home program entails at “attractive” and sustainable financial mechanism aimed […]
Balkan energy regulators establish advisory forum
National energy regulators of Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia, Macedonia, and Montenegro have signed an agreement on the establishment of a permanent advisory forum. The founding members of the Advisory Forum and parties to the agreement are the Energy and Water Regulatory Commission of the Republic of Bulgaria (KEVR), the Regulatory Authority for Energy of the Republic of […]