New business sector emerging from energy efficiency technologies
Montenegro has been intensifying efforts to promote and help fund energy efficiency activities through the Directorate for Energy Efficiency, which stimulates consumers of energy: households, the public sector, firms and municipalities. Dragica Sekulić, who heads the body established by the Ministry of Economy, says the efforts focus on creating a long-term financing scheme with adapted […]
Radić: Investors in Balkans seek biomass-fuelled boilers
Key pieces of equipment for L’Oréal’s hybrid trigeneration plant near Burgos in Spain have been designed and installed by company Polytechnik from Austria. The system relies on biomass and solar energy to produce steam, hot and cold water and electricity for the French cosmetics manufacturer’s operations. Viktor Radić from Polytechnik told Balkan Green Energy News […]
BPB Bank enters EBRD’s green energy programme
A new bank in Kosovo* has joined the energy efficiency financing programme of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Under an agreement signed by Suma Chakrabarti, EBRD’s president, and Arton Celina, the chief executive officer of BPB, the bank will receive a EUR 1 million credit line for on-lending to small and medium-sized enterprises […]
HRT buys HEP’s green energy again
HEP Group, Croatian government-owned power utility, said it agreed with Croatian Radiotelevision (HRT) for the state media system to continue to be a user of electricity supply obtained exclusively from renewable sources. The contract was signed by head of HRT Siniša Kovačić and HEP managing director Perica Jukić. HRT’s electricity from renewable sources is provided […]
EPBiH to partner Hungarian MVM in green power projects
A memorandum of cooperation will be signed by September between state-owned Elektroprivreda Bosne i Hercegovine d. d. (Electric Utility of Bosnia and Herzegovina – EPBiH) and MVM Group, headquartered in Hungary. The state-owned company aims to launch joint projects with new partners, according to a statement by the Ministry of Energy, Mining and Industry (FMERI) […]
Summer school on renewables’ role in local development
The Regional Education and Information Centre (REIC) issued an invitation for its twelfth summer school in Fojnica, west of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s capital Sarajevo. This time the subject is ‘Renewable energy sources as driving force for local development’. Targeted participants are final year master students, PhD students and young professionals dealing with energy issues from […]
State supports 234 renewable projects in 2015
Financial backing under the Renewable Energy Resources Support Mechanism (Yekdem) in Turkey was more than 2.5 times bigger than in 2014, according to Energy Market Regulatory Authority’s (EMRA) latest data, Anadolu Agency’s Energy News Terminal reported. Stimulation was approved for 234 facilities. Companies planning to generate electricity from renewables are eligible to receive funding depending on the project’s specific features. […]
Study for Kostolac wind park to be done by October
Predrag Đorđević, manager for key investment projects at Electric Power Company of Serbia (EPS), said the feasibility study for the planned wind park in Kostolac would be finished by October. In an interview for the June issue of Energija, the state-owned utility’s magazine, he added the development of the main design will ensue, followed by the preparation of […]