energy transition
Hungary, Serbia sign green hydrogen deal
25 July 2022 - The MoU was signed by Zorana Mihajlović, Minister of Mining and Energy, and László Palkovics, Minister of Technology and Industry
Petrol to install rooftop solar panels on all its gas stations
25 July 2022 - Petrol is about to equip its first 46 filling stations in Slovenia with rooftop photovoltaic systems with the help of European funds
Portugal, Switzerland launch pumped storage hydropower plants of over 2 GW in total
22 July 2022 - Iberdrola inaugurated its pumped storage plant Tâmega Gigabattery in Portugal and a similar facility was commissioned in Switzerland
EPBiH signs concession for two solar PV plants
18 July 2022 - The photovoltaic plants will be built at the mine tailings dump site of the Gračanica coal mine in the municipality of Bugojno
IRENA: Solar, wind power costs defy inflation with massive price drop
15 July 2022 - The cost of electricity from onshore wind fell by 15% in 2021, compared to 13% for offshore wind and 13% for photovoltaics, IRENA said
Slovenia to freeze electricity prices, add 1 GW in solar power to supply homes
15 July 2022 - Prime Minister Robert Golob said large solar power plants of 1 GW in total would be built by 2025 to supply Slovenian households
Energy Community can integrate 30 GW of renewables without investments in flexibility
14 July 2022 - The Study on flexibility options to support decarbonization in the Energy Community has assessed the flexibility needs, options for balancing
No giving up on the Green Agenda
09 July 2022 - Zorana Mihajlović: The developments in the past year and a half have made a well-known maxim relevant again: energy is the most expensive when you lack it
Energy Transition Tracker: Energy Community’s coal power output drops 11% in 2021
08 July 2022 - Coal power production in all nine Energy Community contracting parties has been reduced by 13% to a five-year low last year
Natural gas, nuclear energy remain part of EU taxonomy – NGOs to file lawsuit
06 July 2022 - The European Parliament rejected the motion to exclude investments in natural gas and nuclear energy from the sustainable finance taxonomy
Romania to switch its coal plants to reserve as it closes them, without decommissioning
06 July 2022 - Romania decided to extend the coal phaseout back to 2032 and gave up on the plan to dismantle some of the coal plants that it retires
Romania at risk of losing EU energy transition funds on tight deadlines
04 July 2022 - The Ministry of Energy of Romania warned the deadline for the renewables tender within the National Recovery and Resilience Plan is too short
Voltalia breaks ground in Albania for biggest solar park in Western Balkans
01 July 2022 - The site for the Karavasta solar park spans 196 hectares in Fier county in Albania's west. The planned capacity is 140 MW.
EU agrees fossil fuel car ban as climate package talks are starting
29 June 2022 - The Council of the EU and European Parliament are set for talks on the Fit-for-55 package. Both agree new combustion engines should be banned by 2035.
G7 reverses climate policy with support for LNG, gas, nuclear power
29 June 2022 - The G7 reaffirmed its commitment to climate goals, but it backed the deployment of gas, particularly LNG, and of nuclear power
Romania’s renewables can statistically be attributed to Netherlands
28 June 2022 - The EU enables countries to pay other member states to formally make up for shortfalls in achieving own green energy targets