Belgrade Energy Forum – energy transition in Southeast Europe is accelerating
13 May 2024 - The Western Balkans would gain a strategic advantage by joining the EU’s single electricity market, Energy Community Secretariat Director Artur Lorkowski said at the opening of BEF 2024
Serbia to invest EUR 400 million in reconstruction of hydropower plants
18 March 2024 - Minister of Mining and Energy Dubravka Đedović Handanović said EUR 400 million would be invested in the revitalization of EPS's four hydropower plants
Financing completed for EPS’s wind park Kostolac
29 January 2024 - The EU approved a EUR 30 million grant to Serbia's state-owned power utility EPS for its first wind park project – Kostolac
EU launches EUR 1 billion energy support package for Western Balkans
07 December 2022 - The EU will back six renewable energy infrastructure projects in the Western Balkans with grants from a EUR 500 million package
Serbia to put coal plant Kostolac B3 into operation as early as October 2023
28 November 2022 - The last batch of equipment for the construction of the Kostolac B3 coal-fired thermal power plant has arrived at the site, by ship.
Court orders EPS to cut SO2 emissions due to harm to human health, environment
23 November 2022 - An earlier study showed that thermal power plants in the Western Balkans emit 2.5 times as much SO2 as those in the EU
Đedović: Energy sector reforms are priority, lithium production to be examined
04 November 2022 - Dubravka Đedović has visited the Kolubara mining basin to get first-hand information on coal production
Serbia’s coal plant Kostolac B3 to come online in September 2023
07 October 2022 - Head of the Kostolac B3 project Željko Lazović said Serbia's power utility EPS would put the coal power unit into operation next September
EPS considering shutdown of coal power plant Kostolac A
29 July 2022 - Serbian state-owned utility EPS is reexamining the economic feasibility of its plan for the modernization of coal plant Kostolac A
Pollution from coal plants in Western Balkans remains extreme in 2021
22 June 2022 - Coal-fired power plants in the Western Balkans were in breach of Energy Community pollution rules in 2021 for the fourth year in a row.
China pledges to stop building new coal power plants abroad
22 September 2021 - China, the biggest builder of coal-fired power plants in Balkan countries, is set to stop developing new coal power projects outside of its borders.
SO2 emissions in Western Balkans coal plants six times above limit in 2019
23 June 2020 - There was no improvement last year on air pollution from lignite-fired industrial facilities reported to...