Energy Community
Successful first phase of energy transition in Balkans, especially Serbia
13 May 2024 - The first phase of the transition to renewable energy sources in the Western Balkans has been successful, particularly in Serbia, according to Belgrade Energy Forum 2024, organized by Balkan Green Energy News
Belgrade Energy Forum – energy transition in Southeast Europe is accelerating
13 May 2024 - The Western Balkans would gain a strategic advantage by joining the EU’s single electricity market, Energy Community Secretariat Director Artur Lorkowski said at the opening of BEF 2024
Belgrade Energy Forum greets top officials, global investors in renewable on May 13-14
17 April 2024 - The sponsor roster for Belgrade Energy Forum 2024 is expanding with some of the most prominent global names in the renewables realm
SEE CAO appoints new executive director
15 April 2024 - Until January 2024 the executive director of SEE CAO was Ivan Bulatović from Montenegro
Kosovo* adopts Law on the Promotion of the Use of Renewable Energy Sources
09 April 2024 - Only after the first auction was held, lawmakers in Prishtina passed the Law on the Promotion of the Use of Renewable Energy Sources, which introduces CfDs
EU readies criteria for recognizing Energy Community’s guarantees of origin
04 April 2024 - A roadmap is being finalized to allow guarantees of origin from the Energy Community contracting parties to be recognized in the EU
Energy Community issues policy guidelines for energy communities
14 March 2024 - The Energy Community Secretariat published policy guidelines on the concepts of energy communities for national authorities
Energy Community touches upon gender issues with Women Entrepreneurs in Energy webinar
06 March 2024 - A webinar titled Women Entrepreneurs in Energy gathered 80 participants to tackle the underrepresentation of women in the clean energy sector
Applications open for eighth Energy Community Summer School
24 January 2024 - The Energy Community Secretariat is accepting applications for its Summer School, which will take place from July 20 to 27 in Chișinău
Kosovo* adopts first Law on Climate Change
12 January 2024 - Kosovo* failed to include all the 2030 Energy Community climate and energy targets and the 2050 climate neutrality objective in its new law
Energy Community urges Kosovo* to commit in its NECP to phasing out coal by 2050
05 January 2024 - The Energy Community Secretariat doesn’t have any major objections to Kosovo's draft National Energy and Climate Plan
BiH’s NECP lacks clear set of policies, measures, investment needs – Energy Community
04 January 2024 - The Energy Community Secretariat has issued recommendations on Bosnia and Herzegovina's draft National Energy and Climate Plan
Serbia emerges as top performer in Energy Community annual report
12 December 2023 - The Energy Community Secretariat stressed that the three keywords defining 2023 were solidarity, integration and transition
How can energy transition be just to people in coal regions
05 December 2023 - The authorities must act before people leave, according to the speakers at the annual meeting of the Initiative for coal regions in transition in the Western Balkans and Ukraine
Analysis of EU’s Western Balkans decarbonization policy: decarbonization to remain disorderly if nothing changes
24 November 2023 - The policy paper 'Chaotic and fake decarbonization of power sectors in the Western Balkans' is based on a survey of more than 100 experts from the region
Carbon emissions prices are becoming a reality in Western Balkans and particularly in Bosnia and Herzegovina – will the countries pay to the EU or rather collect money in their own budgets?
06 November 2023 - The European Union proposed a Regulation on Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) which was adopted in May this year. This legal action is trying to equalize the carbon pricing burden between EU and non-EU producers