energy transition
North Macedonia launches decarbonization guide for small businesses
22 October 2025 - The Economic Chamber of North Macedonia, with the EU's support, has developed the country’s first decarbonization guide for small businesses
Romania’s coal town Turceni starts EUR 380 million green energy transformation
20 October 2025 - Turceni is dependent on the local coal power plant, so the municipal authority is turning to agrivoltaics, energy storage and green hydrogen
North Macedonia receives grant from France for grid modernization
17 October 2025 - French development agency AFD has officially became a partner of North Macedonia's Investment Platform for a Just Energy Transition
NGEN inaugurates Austria’s most powerful battery energy storage system
17 October 2025 - NGEN Group commissioned its expanded BESS, which is again the largest grid-supporting facility of its kind in Austria
Šahmanović: Second submarine cable line with Italy to be installed by 2031
15 October 2025 - Minister of Energy and Mining Admir Šahmanović announced an investment at the EU-Montenegro Investment Conference
Romanian company to build geothermal hydroponic greenhouses on 50 hectares
15 October 2025 - Geothermal well developer and operator Green Tech International started the construction of a geothermal hydroponic greenhouse in Romania
EU, Serbia to support ElevenEs in battery cell manufacturing expansion
14 October 2025 - ElevenEs signed a declaration of support with the European Commission and the Development Agency of Serbia for its expansion of battery cell manufacturing
Policy changes in US will have marginal impact on global energy transition
09 October 2025 - AI energy use may seem alarming, but it is projected to stay below EV charging and the cooling of buildings, DNV calculated
Romania’s Hidroelectrica to equip hydropower plants with battery storage
08 October 2025 - Romanian state-owned power utility Hidroelectrica plans to integrate battery storage with all its run-of-river hydropower plants
Powering the Future with Sustainable Energy – North Macedonia to host 14-IFESD forum on October 28-30
07 October 2025 - Officials, policymakers, experts, business leaders, scholars and civil society representatives are gathering in Skopje on October 28-30 at the 14-IFESD
Green light for one of first standalone battery investments in Cyprus
06 October 2025 - The Department of Environment of Cyprus issued an approval for what could become one of the country's first battery energy storage systems
Software maker Volue acquires power trading, battery optimization platform smartPulse
06 October 2025 - Volue took over smartPulse, accelerating the expansion into CEE, Southern Europe and Turkey with its power trading and battery optimization
Kosovo’s* just energy transition: greening the Kingdom of Coal
06 October 2025 - Balkan Green Energy News, the media partner of the 2025 Just Transition Young Voices Awards, is publishing the three winning articles
Voice from beyond the centre
03 October 2025 - Balkan Green Energy News, the media partner of the 2025 Just Transition Young Voices Awards,...
Serbia proposes taxes on greenhouse gas emissions, imported carbon-intensive products
03 October 2025 - The draft Law on Greenhouse Gas Emissions Tax and draft Law on Carbon-Intensive Product Imports Tax in Serbia both envisage EUR 4 per ton of CO2 equivalent
European day-ahead power market rolls out 15-minute trading intervals
01 October 2025 - The Single Day-Ahead Coupling area split its hourly units into 15-minute intervals for electricity trading