03 April 2025 - The upcoming solar power program in Bulgaria for municipalities and small businesses will create Europe's biggest energy community, Minister Zhecho Stankov claims

20 March 2025 - The Independent Power Transmission Operator of Greece has joined PICASSO, soon after ESO, its counterpart in neighboring Bulgaria

11 February 2025 - Bulgaria's Electricity System Operator became the first TSO in Southeast Europe to connect to cross-border balancing platform PICASSO

14 January 2025 - Renewables capacity increased by 938 MW in Bulgaria last year, compared to the addition of over 1.2 GW in photovoltaics in 2023

26 December 2024 - The first group of investments under the Greenabler project is worth EUR 568 million and is planned for financing from the EU's Modernisation Fund.

21 August 2024 - ESO said total volume of wind, solar and biomass in the transmission grid jumped 45.5% from the beginning of 2024 on a year-to-year basis

20 August 2024 - The majority, 85% of 17,500 MW of renewable energy projects, are for solar power plants, the country's TSO ESO said

24 July 2024 - Bulgaria's ESO received a grant from the US for a feasibility study for the proposed East-West Energy Corridor between Turkey and Montenegro

22 February 2024 - Dimitar Zarchev said there is a need for flexibility capacity for times of surplus production of energy, to use it when it is needed

27 September 2023 - A proposed corridor between Greece and Poland would carry solar power from the Balkans to northwestern Europe and wind power in the opposite direction

09 November 2022 - Transmisison system operators Transelectrica and ESO have prepared ten-year development plans for the period through 2031

03 June 2022 - Bulgaria’s transmission system operator will finish necessary investments 18 months earlier then planned