Parliamentary Forum: Serbia to avoid mistakes made in Germany’s energy transition
Germany has paid a great amount of money for renewable energy subsidies and this mistake should be avoided by Serbia. A good policy is also to invest in greening existing power plants to reduce CO2 emissions, Tomas Helm of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation said yesterday at the third meeting of the Serbian Parliamentary Energy Policy Forum […]
Croatia’s HEP to supply two Serbia’s cities with electricity
Croatian public utility Hrvatska elektroprivreda (HEP) should start supplying electricity to the Serbian city of Valjevo for public lighting and traffic lights by the end of November, while supplies to another Serbian city, Kraljevo, are at the moment uncertain due to the city’s debt to the previous supplier, Serbia’s public power utility Elektroprivreda Srbije (EPS). […]
Bulgarian, Macedonian TSOs to conduct joint auctions for capacity allocation
Bulgarian electricity transmission system operator ESO and its Macedonian peer MEPSO have signed an agreement to conduct joint auctions for capacity allocation, the Bulgarian transmission system operator (TSO) said in a statement. The document was signed by ESO CEO Ivan Yotov and MEPSO General Director Sašo Vasilevski during a joint session of the governments of […]
Energy Community drafted Guidelines on introducing renewable energy auctions
The feed-in tariffs will be replaced by feed-in premiums (FIP), where the renewable energy producers will sell the electricity into the market and get a sliding premium on top of the electricity price. A sliding FIP scheme is based on the so-called “Contracts for Difference”. These are key provisions in the Draft Policy Guidelines on […]
Albanian government will stimulate investments in solar energy
Solar energy is an extremely important energy source for Albania because of its geographic position and exposure to sunlight, the Albanian Minister of Infrastructure and Energy, Damian Gjiknuri said at the opening of a workshop on solar energy in Tirana. The Minister said the Albanian government will stimulate investments in the production of energy from […]
Climate change impact of diesel cars amounts to 230% that of electric vehicles
Based on the 2015 EU electricity mix, a full electric vehicle (EV) emits around half of the Well to Wheel (WTW) CO2 emissions generated by a conventional car. Expanding the approach to cover the entire life cycle assessment (LCA) performance of EV to include the equipment cycle (batteries, powertrain, glider), the climate change impact of […]
EIB approves loan for CHP plant in Sofia
The board of the European Investment Bank (EIB) has approved a EUR 45 million (USD 53 million) loan to the municipality of Sofia for the construction of a combined heat and electric power (CHP) plant. Once built, the plant will operate as part of the Bulgarian capital’s central heating network, local media reported, quoting an EIB […]
Renewable sources of energy in Bosnia and Herzegovina: issue of (un)sustainability
Author: Nihad Harbaš, Energy and climate change consultant Do we really know how much energy we generate and use in B&H? Consumption or use of energy in Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H) is unknown, although data on the annual consumption of about 140 PJ can be found. Although this sounds unbelievable at first, the energy balances […]