Bosnia seeks to avert loss of KfW funds in wake of HPP Salakovac project pullout
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s (BiH) Finance and Treasury Minister Vjekoslav Bevanda has organized a meeting with representatives of German development bank KfW and power utility Elektroprivreda BiH (EPBiH) in an attempt to prevent the suspension of multi-million projects in BiH financed by the German government, after EPBiH decided to abandon a project to reconstruct hydropower plant […]
EPCG inks deal for HPP Komarnica preliminary design plan
Montenegro’s electricity company Elektroprivreda Crne Gore (EPCG) has signed an agreement worth over EUR 1.6 million with a group of bidders from Serbia – Jaroslav Černi and Energoprojekt Hidroinženjering – to produce a preliminary design plan for hydropower plant (HPP) Komarnica. The contractors are also to prepare a feasibility study and an environmental impact study, EPCG has […]
Canadian company abandoned Brodarevo hydro project in Serbia
Canada-based Reservoir Capital have decided to abandon Brodarevo hydro project which included two hydropower plants (HPPs) Brodarevo 1 and Brodarevo 2 on Lim river in Southwest Serbia, with installed capacity of 59 MW. The decision comes after a decade-long development of the EUR 150 million project. Reservoir Capital announced that its wholly owned Serbian subsidiary, […]
HPP Zvornik’s green electricity generation hits daily record as capacity is increased by 15 MW
Two revitalized units of hydroelectric power plant (HPP) Zvornik have been officially put into operation, in what increased the plant’s installed capacity by 15 MW and its life expectancy by 40 years. The well-executed overhaul was demonstrated by the fact that on the first day of the modernized A2 unit’s test run, Zvornik reported a […]
Elektroprivreda BiH planning five major projects by 2020, including wind farm and hydro power plants
The power utility Elektroprivreda Bosne i Hercegovine (EPBiH) is planning to start the construction of five new facilities to produce electricity, including the Podveležje wind farm, small hydro power plants on the Neretvica river and the hydro power plants Janjići and Una Kostela-Aneks over the next three year. The total investments in that period will […]
EPS announced revitalization of hydroelectric power plant Đerdap 2
Public power utility “Elektroprivreda Srbije” (EPS) intends to conduct the overhaul of 10 units of hydroelectric power plant (HPP) Đerdap 2 in 10 years, which will result in plant’s lifespan extending and capacity increasing by 50 MW. HPP Đerdap 2 was put into operation 32 years ago and has installed capacity is 270 MW. Acting […]
EPS completes Đerdap 1 unit revitalization, ups capacity by 60 MW
The overhaul of four units of hydroelectric power plant Đerdap 1 has increased the plant’s installed capacity by 60 MW, which will result in its electricity generation increasing by 90 million kWh, or 2% of last year’s production. Having completed the revitalization of hydro generators A4, A5 and A6, state-owned power company Elektroprivreda Srbije (EPS) […]
Norwegian power group Statkraft selling Cetin hydropower plant to Turkish Limak Enerji
The Turkish power company Limak Enerji has bought the partly constructed Cetin hydropower plant from the Norwegian energy group Statkraft, the Turkish Anadolu news agency reported on it Energy Terminal site quoting Norwegian company officials. Statkraft said security concerns caused it decide to pull out of the hydropower plant project on the Botan river, which […]