Subotica to install rooftop solar units on nine public buildings
Subotica and Satnica Đakovačka are using funds from the Interreg IPA program to improve energy efficiency and set up rooftop solar power systems
Berlin to make solar panels mandatory for new buildings from 2023
Germany’s capital Berlin is making photovoltaic or solar thermal installations mandatory for new buildings from 2023.
GGF, Yapı Kredi Leasing support renewables in Turkey with loan package of EUR 20 million
The Green for Growth Fund – GGF invested in Turkey’s Yapı Kredi Leasing for the fourth time. The senior loan of EUR 20 million is primarily intended for rooftop solar installations at industrial facilities. The Green for Growth Fund (GGF) said it provided a senior loan of EUR 20 million to Yapı Kredi Leasing, based […]
HEP ESCO to offer rooftop solar power plants, reconstruction of gas boiler rooms
HEP ESCO, Croatian state power utility Hrvatska Elektroprivreda’s (HEP) subsidiary which offers various energy services, has announced two new projects in renewable energy and energy efficiency, offering citizens to install rooftop photovoltaic (PV) power plants for self-consumption and to modernize gas boiler rooms in residential buildings, to help reduce heating costs. The HEPI Solar project […]
Guide to scaling-up rooftop solar in SEE region
Author: Toby D. Couture, Director of E3 Analytics As the costs of solar power continue to decline around the world, solar power is now securing its place as not only the most abundant energy source in the world, but increasingly, as the least expensive. While many decision-makers around the world continue to think that solar is costly […]
FEIT 1st university school in Macedonia to install rooftop PV systems
The Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje’s Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies (FEIT) is the first university school in Macedonia to have launched electricity production for self-consumption using rooftop photovoltaic (PV) systems, according to a statement from the FEIT. Though small, the EUR 27,500 investment in the two rooftop PV systems sends […]
Energy minister announces new draft law on renewables
Minister of Environmental Protection and Energy Tomislav Ćorić has announced a new draft law on renewable energy sources in order to simplify the procedure for such projects. The current Croatian law on renewables and high-efficiency cogeneration was adopted in September 2015. According to the Croatian media, the minister announced that the new draft law would […]
Croatia plans to provide EUR 30 million for individuals to install rooftop PV systems
Croatia’s Environmental Protection and Energy Efficiency Fund (EPEEF) should invite applications by the end of the year for two rounds of funding to back the installation of rooftop photovoltaic power stations, EPEEF Deputy Director Alenka Košiša Čičin-Šain said. “Two public invitations should be launched by the end of the year for installing rooftop photovoltaic power […]