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Coal plants in Western Balkans increase pollution, legal breaches in 2022
28 June 2023 - Emissions of SO2, NOx and dust all rose last year, Bankwatch said in a report on thermal power plants using coal in the Western Balkans
Public consultation on Serbia’s national energy and climate plan: Coal use to be cut 25% by 2030
15 June 2023 - The document is available on the website of the Ministry of Mining and Energy and public consultation is open from June 13 to July 28
Elektroprivreda Republike Srpske plans to burn waste in its Gacko coal plant
17 May 2023 - The power utility is planning a pilot project for burning up to 1,200 tons of waste per day together with coal in the Gacko facility
Bosnian mining city Živinice to install solar power plants with state-owned utility EPBiH
05 May 2023 - It could make the city in the north of BiH the first coal-dependent area in the Western Balkans that kicks off the energy transition
BiH’s NECP: coal power plants to be shut, 2 GW of renewables installed
28 April 2023 - The draft national energy and climate plan of BiH was presented for the first time at the Energy Summit 2023 in Neum
North Macedonia to subsidize households to switch to natural gas for heating
25 April 2023 - The incentives to replace coal, wood and fuel oil with gas is a novelty in the country’s household subsidy program in the energy sector
Serbia to officially commit to phasing out coal by 2050
22 April 2023 - Obligation on decarbonization are part of the bill on the ratification of contract on guarantees for the EUR 300 million loan
Government of Serbia to replace polluting heating boilers
08 April 2023 - Serbia intends to replace coal- and heating oil–fired boilers and furnaces in all public institutions with cleaner solutions, where possible
Coal plant project cancelations accelerate in 2022 – except in China
07 April 2023 - Operating and planned coal power capacity fell in most of the world in 2022, but China keeps adding projects
Tomašević: I have fulfilled my task in EPS
30 March 2023 - Power company Elektroprivreda Srbije (EPS) has earned EUR 49 million from electricity exports since the beginning of the year
Renewables outpace coal for first time in US power production
30 March 2023 - The US power sector produced 4,090 TWh last year, and the share of renewables was 21%, the Energy Information Administration said.
Kosovo* outlines energy transition until 2031 in strategic document
24 March 2023 - Kosovo* aims at 1.6 GW in renewables capacity by 2031, with 340 MWh in batteries. It opted to reconstruct at least three coal plant units.
Join webinars on just energy transitions in Western Balkans and Ukraine
27 February 2023 - The webinar series 'Just energy transitions in the Western Balkans and Ukraine' will explore opportunities and the lessons learnt on the way to a coal phaseout
EU carbon prices surpass EUR 100 per ton for first time
21 February 2023 - A forecasted cold spell and weak winds helped the benchmark emissions prices in the European Union hit an intraday record
EPS sets out plan for shutting down coal power plants
16 February 2023 - Elektroprivreda Srbije intends to shut down 11 coal power units, with a total capacity of 1,744 MW, between 2025 and 2030
Mitsotakis inaugurates Ptolemaida 5, Greece’s last lignite plant
14 February 2023 - The Ptolemaida 5 lignite-fired power plant was inaugurated today by Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and CEOs of PPC and GEK Terna