Guide for mapping areas for solar, wind with minimized impact on environment in Energy Community
12 February 2025 - The secretariat and TNC released a guide for identifying priority areas for renewables that minimizes environmental and social conflicts
Applications open for ninth Energy Community Summer School in Kotor
27 January 2025 - The Energy Community Secretariat is organizing the Energy Community Summer School from July 19 to 26 in Kotor, Montenegro
EU proposes four carbon pricing options to members of Energy Community
10 January 2025 - The EU outlined its Impact Assessment for the Establishment of a Regional Emission Trading System in the Contracting Parties of the Energy Community Treaty
Energy Community’s EU integration pace steady but CBAM looms
25 December 2024 - Energy Community contracting parties showed a tendency this year toward steady transposition and implementation of European law
Chinese-led consortium to build desulfurization unit at BiH’s power plant Kakanj
19 December 2024 - Power utility EPBiH and a consortium led by China’s Dongfang Electric International Corporation have signed an agreement to build a new unit
Members of Energy Community to propose carbon pricing model by mid-2025
13 December 2024 - The contracting parties should propose a carbon pricing model they intend to introduce, the Ministerial Council said after the latest meeting
Montenegro drafts NECP: TPP Pljevlja to be shut down by 2041
09 December 2024 - The Ministry of Energy of Montenegro submitted the draft NECP to the Energy Community Secretariat for a review
Western Balkans TSOs back joint declaration on regional cooperation
04 December 2024 - The declaration could speed up the coupling of their electricity markets with the power markets of European Union member states
Lorkowski: No Western Balkan country can get CBAM exemption for electricity in time
03 December 2024 - Without securing exemptions, Montenegro, BiH, North Macedonia, and Serbia would have to bear CBAM costs of electricity exports to the EU
Western Balkans can’t secure CBAM exemption for electricity in time
23 October 2024 - For an exemption from the CBAM cross-border CO2 tax on electricity, Balkan countries must couple their markets with an EU neighbor
CMS: Montenegro – What does the new Law on renewable energy usage bring?
09 October 2024 - On 31 August 2024, the Law on renewable energy usage came into force in Montenegro. For the first time, it comprehensively regulates the use of renewable energy sources.
Europe is facing energy crisis in winter because of Ukraine
04 October 2024 - About half of Ukraine’s power generation capacity is out of operation, so it has turned from a net exporter of electricity to an importer