Energy Community report calls on Member States to finish reforms in order to succeed in clean energy transition
The Energy Community (EnC) Secretariat’s Annual Implementation Report concludes that the average implementation score of the Contracting Parties is at around 43%, and underlines the need of finishing this first transition, from foreclosed energy sectors to regionally integrated markets, in order to be successful in the second, green energy transition, which is currently transforming the […]
HEP signs construction deal for Zagreb CCPP as it secures EUR 130 million in lending from EBRD, EIB
Power utility Hrvatska Elektroprivreda’s (HEP) project to build a new gas-fired combined-cycle gas-turbine plant to replace old and worn-out units at the EL-TO Zagreb combined heat and power (CHP) site will be backed with a total of EUR 130 million in lending from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the European Investment […]
Kosovo* fails to implement emission limit values for coal-fired power plants
The Energy Community Secretariat has initiated a preliminary dispute settlement procedure against Kosovo* for the lack of transposition and implementation of legislation related to the emissions of large combustion plants. According to the Secretariat’s press release, the environmental legislation of Kosovo* aiming to curb emissions into the air fails to comply with the obligations under […]
Switching to more market-based schemes for renewables in Contracting Parties’ interest
Janez Kopač, Director of the Energy Community Secretariat, speaks in an interview for the Balkan Green Energy News about widening the scope of the Industrial Emissions Directive’s application and launching a process aimed at setting targets for renewable energy, energy efficiency, and greenhouse gas emission reduction for 2030. He also explains why switching to more […]
EPCG launches tendering to produce design plan for TPP Pljevlja ecological overhaul
Power utility Elektroprivreda Crne Gore (EPCG) has issued a public invitation of tenders to produce a preliminary design plan for ecological reconstruction of coal-fired power plant Pljevlja. The deadline for submission is February 1, and the estimated value of the deal is EUR 900,000. The best bidder will have seven months to do the job. […]
Energy Community Ministerial Council sets vision for post-2020 climate and energy policy
The Energy Community Ministerial Council launched a process aimed at setting targets for renewable energy, energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emission reduction for 2030 in the Energy Community. In early 2018. the Contracting Parties will be supported by guidelines for the preparation of integrated National Energy and Climate Plans. The Council also invited the Secretariat […]
BiH to change environmental permits of two new power plants to comply with EU’s Directive
The Energy Community Secretariat and authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina agreed to amend the environmental permits of thermal power plants (TPP) Banovići and Tuzla 7 in order to comply with the European Union’s Industrial Emissions Directive (IED). The environmental permits were the subject of cases ECS-16/16 and ECS-17/16 against Bosnia and Herzegovina regarding incompliance with […]
Serbia to shut-down 8 coal-fired power plant’s units by 2024
Serbia will shut-down 8 coal-fired power plant’s units of public power utility Elektroprivreda Srbije (EPS) which do not comply with ecological requirements of the European Union’s Large Combustion Plants Directive, by 2024. Electricity generation from these power plants will be compensated by the construction of 7 new wind farms and two natural gas and coal-fired […]