PPC Renewables to add 1.5 GW in solar including on former coal mines
The Regulatory Authority for Energy revealed Greece’s dominant power producer is already taking steps in line with its recently published five-year plan. PPC Renewables SA, tasked with Public Power Corp. SA’s envisaged energy transition, filed applications for photovoltaic units with a total capacity of 1.5 GW. The ambition is to add 1 GW by 2024 […]
Serbia shelves plan to introduce ecotax for households
The Government of Serbia has tweaked an executive order about the determination of activities impacting the environment just days after issuing it. It changed several details, but the most important decision was that it scrapped the provisions for an ecotax to be rolled out effectively on households. With the amendments to the decree, the cabinet […]
Firms, organizations invited to join Tree for Belgrade challenge
Green infrastructure helps reduce the urban heat island effect, regulates the microclimate and filters and cleans the air, authorities in Serbia’s capital city said. Mayor Zoran Radojičić, pictured right, has initiated a challenge called Tree for Belgrade to mobilize socially responsible companies and international organizations. The city is currently the only one outside of the […]
GGF opens clim@ competition for innovations in climate change mitigation
Businesses or projects that can make a positive difference to the future of environment have through February 16 to apply for clim@ 2020 and compete for a share of EUR 30,000 earmarked for the three grand finalists, the Green for Growth Fund said. The competition will take place on June 2 at the GGF Sustainable […]
Ugljevik testing desulfurization in coal power plant
The RiTE Ugljevik mine and coal power plant has said it switched on its desulfurization system. The facility for the protection from the consequences of burning coal will have a three-month test drive. It was funded by a loan from the Japan International Cooperation Agency, better known as JICA, agreed in 2010. The purifier of […]
Serbia rolls out ecotax – firms to pay up to EUR 17,000 per year
The Government of Serbia adopted a directive dividing the corporate sector into three categories according to environmental impact and imposed ecological taxation. Firms are in four groups with regard to size. Persons taxable with property tax were also included at the bottom, with a levy of RSD 1,200 (EUR 10.2) per annum. The ecotax was […]
Green Home files criminal complaint over Bijelo Polje SHPP plan
Environmentalist organization Green Home has said it raised a criminal case with the Supreme State Prosecution Office of Montenegro against officials it claims are responsible for abuse of power in the procedure of project development for small hydropower plant Lještanica. Decision makers from the departments for spatial planning and rural and sustainable development in Bijelo […]
Damage from small hydropower is much larger than gains, study finds
The Balkans and Turkey are examples of how quickly free-flowing rivers and river stretches “can be degraded by being turned into impoundments,” World Wide Fund for Nature warned after publishing a study it commissioned together with RiverWatch, Geota and EuroNatur. Environmentalists said hydropower puts “tremendous pressure on Europe’s biodiversity, and for specific projects a disregard […]