Montenegro to delay temporary shutdown of TPP Pljevlja for 2026
The pause in the operation of the Pljevlja coal plant, planned for 2025 within its ecological reconstruction, could be postponed to 2026
Electricity becomes Montenegro’s biggest export item
Photovoltaic output increased fivefold, however it was 50% below plan, according to the Energy Balance of Montenegro for 2024
Đukanović: Montenegro earns EUR 46.4 million from electricity exports in three weeks
Another good news from Montenegro is that the share of wind in domestic electricity production on December 9 was the highest in Europe
Montenegro’s EPCG revamps Kruševo hydropower plant project
Montenegro's power utility EPCG will examine the possibility to build hydropower plant Kruševo on the Piva river
EPCG to invest EUR 51 million in 2020
Power utility Elektroprivreda Crne Gore (EPCG) intends to invest EUR 51 million this year in projects within the electricity generation sector and the development and engineering department. Last year, EPCG’s capital expenditures were EUR 9.35 million, and in October it announced EUR 700 million would be invested in new renewable energy capacities. The construction of the Briska […]
EPCG shareholders approve investment in Gvozd wind farm project
Shareholders of state power utility Elektroprivreda Crne Gore (EPCG) have approved an investment into a joint EUR 58 million project with Austria’s Ivicom Holding to build the Gvozd wind farm, RTCG reported following a meeting of EPCG’s shareholders. Ivan Mrvaljević, head of development and engineering at EPCG, said earlier this year that EPCG could launch […]
Montenegro registers 10 days of coal-free electricity generation
Montenegro produced enough electricity to cover domestic consumption from renewable energy sources only from May 24 to June 2, 2019, for the first time ever going coal-free for 10 days, the Government of Montenegro said in a press release. During the period, coal-fired power plant Pljevlja was not operating, yet Montenegro produced around 82 million […]
EPCG’s new investment cycle focuses on portfolio diversification, hydropower projects
A Belgrade consortium comprising engineering firm Energoprojekt Hidroinženjering and water management institute Jaroslav Černi has been selected to produce a conceptual design for hydropower plant (HPP) Komarnica, and has already prepared an environmentally acceptable technical solution, which paves the way for the construction of the power plant following decades of research, Igor Noveljić, CEO of […]