What does Croatia’s draft law on renewables envisage?
The draft law on renewable energy sources and high-efficiency cogeneration is up for public consultation, which will last until June 16.
Slovenia’s GEN-I to build 17 MW solar power plant in North Macedonia
Slovenia’s GEN-I is launching construction on its first large-scale solar power plant, after gaining rights to develop 17 MW in North Macedonia.
Energy Community’s new guidelines remove barriers to prosumer development, experts say
Experts from BiH, North Macedonia, and Serbia highlight the new elements in the Energy Community’s policy guidelines on prosumers.
Energy Community publishes guidelines for regulating renewables self-consumers
The Energy Community Secretariat has published policy guidelines on the integration of renewables self-consumers into the energy networks. According to the Policy Guidelines on Integration of Renewables Self-Consumers, it follows the latest legal requirements stemming from the European Union’s Clean Energy Package (CEP), soon to be adopted in the Energy Community. The document replaces the […]
Meat company Pivac installs 1.2 MW PV plant for self-consumption
Meat processing company Pivac Group has installed a 1.2 MW solar photovoltaic plant on the roofs of its factory PPK Karlovačka Mesna Industrija. The facility will produce electricity for self-consumption. The EUR 1 million investment was implemented by HEP ESCO, a member of the HEP Group. The 7,500-square-meter PV facility has 3,939 PV panels, with […]
Solar power boom in Slovenia – almost 2,500 solar plants installed in 2019
In 2019 Slovenia installed 2,496 solar photovoltaic systems with a total capacity of 31.2 MW of which the vast majority is for self-consumption. Compared to 2018 this is an increase of 233%. The growing number of prosumers in Slovenia mirrors the trend in Europe. In the Netherlands last year there were 200,000 new PV systems, […]
Contract signed for largest self-consumption PV plant in Bulgaria
Copper producer Aurubis Bulgaria and energy solution provider CEZ ESCO Bulgaria have signed a contract for the construction of a 10 MW photovoltaic power plant, which would be the largest one for self-consumption in the country. The plant will be installed at the Aurubis’ Pirdop copper smelter and refinery, located 80 kilometers east from Sofia. […]
Shaping the role of renewables self-consumers in the Energy Community
Author: Jasmina Trhulj, Head of Electricity Unit, Energy Community Secretariat At the start of the new decade, denial of the energy transition in the Energy Community is fading away and a path to the decarbonization of the energy sector is taking shape. While the days of opted-out thermal power plants are numbered, carbon pricing and […]
