Solagro Smart Recycler targets consumers who lost faith in recycling system
A lack of a reliable and simple recycling system and unmotivated users result in a low percentage of recycled packaging waste. Serbia’s Solagro, a participant in this year’s clim@ competition for startups organized by the Green for Growth Fund (GGF), has developed a smart beverage waste recycling device that can solve the problem. The Solagro […]
EBRD providing up to EUR 5.1 million to UniCredit in Serbia to on-lend for energy efficiency, renewables projects
The EBRD is providing a loan of up to RSD 600 million (equivalent to EUR 5.1 million) to UniCredit, the second-largest bank in Serbia, to enhance its financing of the green economy, according to a news release from the EBRD. The loan comes under the EBRD’s EUR 85 million Green Economy Financing Facility for the […]
EIB issues first Sustainability Awareness Bond as Bankwatch urges it to shift away from fossil fuels
Just as the European Investment Bank (EIB), heavily present in South-East Europe (SEE), issued its first, EUR 500 million Sustainability Awareness Bond, CEE Bankwatch Network, one of the largest networks of environmental civil society organizations (CSO) in Central and Eastern Europe, unveiled a report calling on the lender to shift away from financing fossil fuels […]
HPP Bogatići Nova put into operation after EUR 9.45 million investment
Power utility Elektroprivreda Republike Srpske (ERS) has put into operation hydropower plant (HPP) Bogatići Nova, with an installed capacity of 9.96 MW, built in an investment of BAM 18.5 million (about EUR 9.45 million). HPP Bogatići Nova, on the Željeznica River near Sarajevo, should generate an average of 46.26 million KWh of electricity a year, […]
Evaluation of energy performance of buildings in Albania from the perspective of energy poverty
Author: Lira Hakani, EDEN Center, Tirana, Albania In an op-ed for Balkan Green Energy News, Lira Hakani of the Environmental Center for Development, Education and Networking (EDEN Center) presents the key findings of the Evaluation of Energy Performance of Buildings from the Perspective of Energy Poverty. This evaluation report, the first of its kind in […]
Five EU member states urged to capitalize on building renovation strategies to improve energy efficiency
Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Romania, and Slovenia have only partially met the objectives of Article 4 of the EU’s Energy Efficiency Directive, missing the opportunity to deliver an array of benefits through building renovation, according to a report recently published by the Horizon 2020 project EmBuild. “There is clearly a missed opportunity as building renovation has […]
Industry association expects major deployment surge as EU removes trade duties on solar panels from China
Now that the EU’s trade measures on solar panels from China have expired, Brussels-based industry association SolarPower Europe expects a major solar deployment surge across the bloc, based on a 2017 study from the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers (DG JUST). Following the European Commission’s decision not to extend the anti-dumping and anti-subsidy […]
Works start to build 2nd biomass boiler in Priboj
The municipality of Priboj has started building a boiler to use wood chips as fuel, in what will improve heating supply for five public facilities and cut their heating costs. The new 1.8 MW biomass boiler will supply heating to two elementary schools and two high schools, as well as primary health care facility, with […]