GIZ ORF-EE holds First South-East Europe Parliamentary Forum in Vienna
The 1st South-East Europe Parliamentary Forum was organized within the GIZ ORF-EE project Regional Cooperation and Capacity Development of Parliamentarians of South-East Europe on Energy Efficiency and Climate Protection. It took place on 20 December in the Energy Community in Vienna, in the framework of the Public Dialogue Initiative on Sustainable Use of Energy in […]
Projects for market coupling and cross-border balancing in Western Balkans launched
On 19 and 20 December, regional projects for technical assistance to support day-ahead market coupling and cross-border balancing in the Western Balkans were kicked-off at meetings held under the Western Balkan 6 (WB6) Initiative in Vienna. First sub-regional market coupling projects will go live by mid-January 2018. Beneficiaries of the two contracts are 6 Energy […]
Women in Sustainable Energy SEE – join first survey in Serbia on women’s role in sustainable energy
Who are the women who are professionally engaged in sustainable energy, climate change, and environmental protection in Serbia? How much women in households across Serbia care about energy? Do women see the country’s energy future in fossil fuel or renewable energy sources? Do they have the same career advancement opportunities as men? Are women equally […]
Serbian power utility EPS presents Environmental Action Plan, to invest EUR 864 million
The Draft Environmental Action Plan of public power utility Elektroprivreda Srbije (EPS) from 2016 to 2025 anticipates investments of EUR 864 million in reducing air, soil and water pollution, as well as in waste management, Aleksandar Jakovljević, head of strategy at EPS’ said during a presentation of the Draft Action Plan. He recalled that in […]
Energy Community Ministerial Council sets vision for post-2020 climate and energy policy
The Energy Community Ministerial Council launched a process aimed at setting targets for renewable energy, energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emission reduction for 2030 in the Energy Community. In early 2018. the Contracting Parties will be supported by guidelines for the preparation of integrated National Energy and Climate Plans. The Council also invited the Secretariat […]
Reducing air pollution from TPPs in Western Balkans could save thousands of lives
While ministers at the 15th ministerial council meeting of the Energy Community in Kosovo* are expected to adopt new rules for emission limits for coal power plants in the Western Balkans (as part of the transposition of the EU’s Industrial Emissions Directive into national law), The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) calls on political leaders […]
BiH to change environmental permits of two new power plants to comply with EU’s Directive
The Energy Community Secretariat and authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina agreed to amend the environmental permits of thermal power plants (TPP) Banovići and Tuzla 7 in order to comply with the European Union’s Industrial Emissions Directive (IED). The environmental permits were the subject of cases ECS-16/16 and ECS-17/16 against Bosnia and Herzegovina regarding incompliance with […]
Montenegro’s RAE becomes first Energy Community regulator to join ACER’s working groups
The Montenegro Energy Regulatory Agency (RAE) fulfilled a strict criteria, including compliance with the Third Energy Package and regulatory independence, for the participation of its experts in the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators’ (ACER) working groups as of January 2018. RAE is the first national regulator from the Energy Community (EnC) Contracting Parties […]
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