Aarhus Centre lodges court complaints against environmental permits for HPPs Buk Bijela, Foča
The Aarhus Resource Centre Sarajevo has submitted two complaints to the District Court in Banja Luka against the environmental permits for the Buk Bijela and Foča hydropower plants (HPPs) on the river Drina in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) near the border with Montenegro, CEE Bankwatch Network, one of the largest networks of environmental civil society […]
China Energy gains renewable foothold in Greece, eyes Balkan expansion
China Energy Investment Corporation, one of the world’s largest power companies, has signed a cooperation agreement with Greece’s Copelouzos Group for renewable energy and conventional electricity. Under the agreement, China Energy will enter into the equity of a significant pipeline of wind farms built by Copelouzos Group, one of the biggest investment groups in Greece […]
Plastic waste processing in Serbia attracts interest of foreign investors
Representatives of the Italian company Novamont are interested in the development of a system for the processing of plastic waste in Serbia. Earlier this month, the Chinese company Blue Sky officially announced the construction of a plastic waste processing plant in Ćuprija. Italians visited earlier this week S Group, paints and plastic raw materials producer […]
Construction of HPP Buk Bijela on Drina river starts in 2018
Construction of the 93.52 MW hydropower plant (HPP) Buk Bijela is expected to start this year. It will be fully owned by the power utility Elektroprivreda Republike Srpske (ERS). The investment is estimated at BAM 400 million (EUR 200 million), announced Petar Đokić, Minister of Industry, Energy, and Mining of Republika Srpska (RS). The first […]
Belgrade Mayor signs contracts with Chinese companies to build waste water plant and heating pipeline
Belgrade Mayor Siniša Mali signed contracts with two Chinese companies to build a heating pipeline from Obrenovac to Novi Beograd and a wastewater processing plant. The contracts with the CMEC (China Machinery Engineering Corporation) and Power Construction Corporation of China were signed during the 16+1 (China and 16 countries of central and eastern Europe) 2017 […]
Negotiations underway with Chinese companies on Belgrade heating pipeline
Belgrade city Mayor Siniša Mali said negotiations are underway with Chinese companies on agreements which including the construction of a heating pipeline to service the Serbian capital in winter. Speaking at a business forum during the Days of Beijing in Belgrade, Mali said he hopes those negotiations on the pipeline and two other major projects […]
No permit yet for Chinese CMEC for windfarm in Tomislavgrad
The Bosnia-Herzegovina Federation still has not issued a permit to CMEC (China Machinery Engineering Corporation) for the windfarm it plans to build outside Tomislavgrad, the Chinese company’s spokesman Zhang Weiwei said at a meeting with BiH Federation President Marinko Čavara. Weiwei said everything has been prepared to draw up a feasibility study for the project […]
European Commission plans to gradually phase out import duties on solar panels from China
The European Commission (EC) College proposed to prolong the import anti-dumping duties on solar panels from China for a further period of 18 months instead of 24 months with a gradual phase-out. Frans Timmermans, EC First Vice-President, announced the proposal at the press conference and said that it will be sent to 28 member states […]