European Commission: Serbia, BiH increase coal power output in 2020
Power output from coal fell by 22% in the EU last year, while Serbia boosted its production by 4% in the sector and BiH increased it by 8%
Saudi Arabia to add 3.7 GW in solar power, achieves world’s lowest price
Saudi Arabia connected a 300 MW PV system to the grid and revealed it signed a separate power purchase agreement at just USD 10.4 per MWh
Greece officially writes off four coal-fired thermal power units
The plans for a coal phaseout in Greece seem to be accelerating as the only thermal power plant project may be switched to gas earlier.
Zeronomics: 55% of companies not on track to net zero emissions in 2050
Research into the financing of a net zero world, with the participation of 350 business leaders, reveals a gulf between words and action.
Budapest to install geothermal district heating system of up to 20 MW
Icelandic group Arctic Green Energy will help FŐTÁV, the district heating company of Budapest, to add geothermal capacity of 10 MW to 20 MW
North Macedonia’s ESM to introduce carbon pricing for its power plants by end of 2021
Energy Community Secretariat has invited all power producers to implement internal carbon pricing, but so far only ESM answered positively.
North Macedonia securing gas, electricity supply amid coal phaseout
The country has signed three memoranda with Greece on the future LNG terminal near Alexandroupolis and the adjacent gas-fired power plant.
TPP Pljevlja uses its 20,000 hours production limit – European Environment Agency
The EEA has officially confirmed that the power plant, part of utility EPCG, consumed its limit for production at the end of 2020.
