Serbia April 25, 2019 | Comments: 0Author: Svetlana Jovanović
Aleksandar Jovanović Ćuta has been fighting against the construction of run-of-river small hydropower plants (SHPPs) on Mt. Stara Planina (the Balkan mountain range) since 2016. Growing up, Jovanović witnessed much…
Serbia April 24, 2019 | Comments: 0Author: Vladimir Spasić
The Municipal Council of Dimitrovgrad in eastern Serbia has adopted a decision to propose the expulsion of all potential locations for the construction of small hydropower plants (SHPPs) from the…
Serbia April 19, 2019 | Comments: 0Author: Vladimir Spasić
The authorities did not consider the possible environmental impact when they lightly issued construction permits for small hydropower plants (SHPPs) and approved incentives for privileged electricity producers. And then the…
Albania April 16, 2019 | Comments: 1Author: Vladimir Spasić
Albania’s Ministry of Infrastructure and Energy has found 9 more cases of contract violations during its review of concession agreements for hydropower plants (HPPs). This amounts to 17 concession deals…
Serbia April 12, 2019 | Comments: 0Author: Vladimir Spasić
Thirteen out of 250 members of the parliament (MPs) of the Republic of Serbia have signed the Green Party’s initiative to protect drinking water as one of the most important…
Serbia March 28, 2019 | Comments: 0Author: Balkan Green Energy News
The Green Party has launched an initiative in the parliament of the Republic of Serbia to protect drinking water under the Constitution. The Green Party recently presented a five-point plan…
North MacedoniaRegion/EU March 27, 2019 | Comments: 0Author: Svetlana Jovanović
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs), government representatives, experts, hydropower developers, and the local community gathered at an international conference in North Macedonia to discuss challenges and solutions concerning nature protection and hydropower…
Serbia March 25, 2019 | Comments: 0Author: Svetlana Jovanović
The Green Party and activists fighting against the construction of small hydropower plants (SHPPs) have presented a five-point plan for the “unchecked surge of small hydropower plants,” the party said…
Bosnia and Herzegovina March 20, 2019 | Comments: 0Author: Balkan Green Energy News
The Ministry of Energy and Mining of Republika Srpska (RS), an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, has unveiled a list of legal entities and individuals that received electricity production incentives…
Serbia March 19, 2019 | Comments: 0Author: Balkan Green Energy News
The Academy of Engineering Sciences of Serbia (AESS) has published its view on energy, environmental, and social problems arising from the construction of small hydropower plants (SHPP) with a long…
Region/EU February 12, 2019 | Comments: 0Author: Vladimir Spasić
Amid the public outcry against the construction of small hydropower plants (SHPPs) throughout the region, with the latest cases in Štrpce in Kosovo* and at the Krapska river in Macedonia,…
Region/EU February 11, 2019 | Comments: 0Author: Vladimir Spasić
The intensity of the construction of small hydropower plants (SHPPs) in the European Union is much lower today than it used to be in previous decades, Energy Community Secretariat Director…
