Bulgaria’s ESO has received grant to increase energy efficiency
The Bulgarian Electricity System Operator (ESO) has received a grant from the Operational Program Innovation and Competitiveness (OPIC) 2014-2020, to improve its energy efficiency. The contract for implementation of this large-scale program was signed earlier this week and it will include ESO’s 273 sites across Bulgaria. Under the Energy Efficiency Implementation Program, 520.000 bulgarian lev (EUR […]
Bosnia-Herzegovina adopts first country-wide energy efficiency action plan
The Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) Council of Ministers adopted an energy efficiency action plan for BiH for the period from 2016 to 2018, a statement issued after the session said. The statement said the action plan defines measures and programs at the level of the entire BiH and within the competencies of the District of Brčko. This […]
Energy Community chief to visit Kosovo*, Serbia, Albania in December
Janez Kopač, Director of the Energy Community (EnC) Secretariat, will visit the parliaments of Kosovo*, Serbia and Albania in December to present the key findings of the Secretariat’s 2017 Annual Implementation Report while Macedonian parliament is planned for early next year, Energy Community Secretariat told for Balkan Green Energy News portal. On 12th December, Kopač […]
INTEGRA active house – First Serbian ecologically responsible house
Project: INTEGRA Active House Country: Serbia Project Phase: Readiness level, 3 prototypes ready to be tested in the natural environment INTEGRA is an innovative, environmentally responsible, energy-independent and energy efficient, sustainable, prefabricated house made from natural materials. It has been designed in Serbia and is now ready to be tested in the natural environment. It […]
5 MW cogeneration facility in Slatina by GGE to be completed in 2018
The implementation of GGE’s largest energy efficiency project – the construction of a cogeneration of heat and power (CHP) plant in Croatian Slatina municipality is expected to be completed by summer of 2018, the regional energy services company GGE said in a statement. The total investment is worth EUR 24 million and construction works have […]
New stage in upgrading energy efficiency of public buildings in Montenegro
Montenegro’s Ministry of the Economy published an invitation for offers in the pre-qualification procedure for tenders to upgrade the energy efficiency of two schools and a social services institution. The invitation for offers was made as part of stage two of the Energy Efficiency in Public Buildings program, the ministry said in the invitation and […]
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 […]
29 Serbian municipalities signed MoU to improve energy efficiency
Representatives of 29 municipalities in Serbia and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at improving energy efficiency and exploiting the potential of biomass for energy production in local communities. The signed document is to provide assistance to local governments to develop energy efficiency programs, monitor energy consumption and […]