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12 June 2025 - The World Bank would support projects to extend the life of existing nuclear power plants and speed up the rollout of small modular reactors.
12 July 2023 - Turkey is making plans for its second and third nuclear power plants and the deployment of several small modular reactors
19 August 2022 - Serbia is mulling the option for its NECP to start adding small modular reactors in 2032. The emissions reduction is seen at 34.2% to 44.4% by 2030.
14 April 2026 - Noth Macedonian Minister of Energy, Mining and Mineral Resources Sanja Božinovska signed an MoU with Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau on improving the security of natural gas supply
07 April 2026 - Minister of Energy, Mining and Mineral Resources of North Macedonia Sanja Božinovska has met with Jarrod Agen, executive director of the US National Energy Dominance Council
07 April 2026 - The energy crisis surpasses the shocks of 1973, 1979 and 2022 combined, said the IEA's chief Fatih Birol and warned of "a black April"
14 March 2026 - The Ministry of Mining and Energy has organized a presentation of a preliminary technical study on the peaceful use of nuclear energy
11 March 2026 - Reducing the share of nuclear energy was a “strategic mistake” that has exposed Europe to volatile fossil fuel imports, said Ursula von der Leyen
23 February 2026 - Serbia is building its nuclear program with EDF for a 2032 launch, but remains open to other partners like Rosatom
19 February 2026 - Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan does not expect the SMR project to be completed any time soon, given its high estimated cost and complexit
30 January 2026 - Chancellor Friedrich Merz claimed nuclear fusion would introduce electricity so cheap that it would replace wind power within thirty years
29 January 2026 - Romania is developing its Black Sea AI Gigafactory project, of up to EUR 5 billion, and several other investments in new technologies
02 January 2026 - Battery storage and digitalization stepped into the spotlight in 2025, according to the readers of Balkan Green Energy News, which marked its tenth anniversary with the best results so far
12 September 2025 - Croatia and Slovenia jointly operate the Krško nuclear power plant, and cooperation on building a second unit is also possible
19 August 2025 - Nuclear facility Hermes 2, set to go online in 2030, will feed electricity to the grid that supplies Google's data centers in Tennessee and Alabama.
20 June 2025 - After contacts with Russia, Slovenia and China and the start of cooperation with France, Serbia is expecting an agreement with South Korea's KHNP