Energy Community

The Energy Community Secretariat is seeking views on the draft policy guidelines on the integration of renewables self-consumers. The public consultation started on June 17, and it will last until…

Western Balkan countries, partners of the GIZ Open Regional Fund for South-East Europe – Energy Efficiency (ORF-EE), have made substantial progress in the preparation of their draft National Energy and…

Widespread concerns and criticism over the impact of hydropower on nature and the quality of life prompted the rethinking of the stance toward the projects, so the Energy Community Secretariat…

The drop in the electricity bill collection rate ranged from 10% to 30% in March in most of the contracting parties of Energy Community, with Kosovo* and North Macedonia being…

Albania’s Ministry of Infrastructure and Energy has decided to suspend tendering for companies and financial institutions interested in becoming shareholders of a joint-stock company which would operate the Albanian power…

The European Union and the Energy Community are preparing big decisions for the energy sector of the region, decisions that the region itself knows very little about. This, according to…

Electricity demand has decreased by up to 10% in Bosnia and Herzegovina and 5% to 10% in Albania, the Energy Community Secretariat said in its first report on the security…

The European Commission has launched a tendering procedure for a study aimed at extending the EU’s modelling capacities to the contracting parties for calculating 2030 energy and climate targets (energy…

Author: Janez Kopač, Director of the Energy Community Secretariat Fifteen years ago, the Energy Community was established as the principal tool to integrate the energy sectors of non-EU countries into…

Kosovo* must rectify its breaches by July 1 or the Energy Community Secretariat will initiate a procedure over emission limit values, which the government is obligated to determine in a…

Participants at the 5th Energy and Climate Committee meeting, organized by the Energy Community Secretariat, have stressed the connection between national energy and climate plans (NECPs) and the European Green…

Slovenian lignite-fired thermal power plant Termoelektrarna Šoštanj (TEŠ) has been developing several projects aimed at achieving gradual energy transition thus contributing to carbon neutral society. They include the use of…