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Bulgaria unveils two pumped storage hydropower projects of 800 MW each
13 October 2023 - Planning is underway in Bulgaria to install two underground pumped storage hydropower facilities with a combined capacity of 1.6 GW.
Bernard: NGEN batteries enable end consumers to enter electricity market
28 September 2023 - Slovenian company NGEN is currently installing a 70 MW / 140 MWh battery in Slovenia and a 50 MW / 100 MWh facility in Croatia
Bislimoski: Energy transition to make North Macedonia exporter of electricity
19 September 2023 - North Macedonia has increased its electricity generation capacity by 30%, according to Marko Bislimoski
Serbia’s electricity system can operate with up to 5,800 MW of solar, wind
18 September 2023 - The 5,800 MW estimate is from an adequacy analysis conducted by Serbia's transmission system operator Elektromreža Srbije
Greek consortium wins bid to build hydropower plant Čebren
14 September 2023 - The hydropower plant is of great importance for the energy transition of North Macedonia as it will help balance renewable energy sources
Distribution grid digitalization, smart meters crucial to scale-up prosumers in Serbia, region
23 August 2023 - The rapid increase in the number of PV power plants for self-consumption has delivered many benefits, but it has also triggered restrictions
Energy Vault completes world’s first gravity energy storage system in China
07 August 2023 - Energy Vault is commissioning the world’s first grid-scale gravity energy storage system. It is adjacent to a wind power plant near Shanghai.
Romania’s biggest pumped storage hydropower project awaits feasibility study
04 August 2023 - Romania initiated market consultations for its Tarnița-Lapuștești pumped storage hydropower project, aiming to commission a feasibility study
Renewable energy regulatory landscape in Serbia: A closer look at the latest developments
05 July 2023 - The spring of 2023 brought significant regulatory changes in the renewable energy sector in Serbia
Serbia issues quota for upcoming solar power auction, adopts rules on balancing, premiums, feed-in tariffs
02 June 2023 - The government determined the quota for the premiums it intends to award for solar, defined balancing responsibility, premiums, feed-in tariffs rules
Power prices on Serbia’s SEEPEX crash to zero amid European solar output surge
30 May 2023 - The reoccurring anomaly when power prices in Europe turn negative and even slump deeply below zero affected Serbia this time, too
Constantinescu: Grid operators working to integrate hundreds of gigawatts from renewables
25 May 2023 - The challenges in adding wind and solar farms to the electricity networks in Europe are being solved along the way as technology progresses
EBRD’s Bogdanović: Renewable heating is biggest contributor to decarbonization in urban areas
25 May 2023 - Renewable sources can contribute the most to the decarbonization of urban areas, Bojan Bogdanović from the EBRD said at BEF 2023
BEF 2023: Flexibility services are business opportunity for renewables producers
17 May 2023 - The flexibility and digitalization panel at BEF 2023 acknowledged how difficult it is to integrate hundreds of gigawatts from new solar and wind power plants, but it also pointed to business opportunities in the emerging ancillary and system services
BEF 2023: Serbia starts bringing order to grid connection process, battery rule may cause problems
10 May 2023 - Belgrade Energy Forum 2023 brought together government officials and major companies in Serbia’s capital city
Serbia looking for strategic partner to build 1 GW of solar
09 May 2023 - The power plants and batteries will be handed over to state power utility EPS under a turn-key contract