small hydropower plants

The support from Leonardo DiCaprio and Manu Chao for the initiative to ban the construction of small hydropower plants on Vjosa River in Albania and the part of the Balkan…

The Balkans and Turkey are examples of how quickly free-flowing rivers and river stretches “can be degraded by being turned into impoundments,” World Wide Fund for Nature warned after publishing…

North Macedonia’s State Commission for Prevention of Corruption closed a case involving deputy prime minister Kocho Angjushev as it found that he has made known his interest in the operations…

Though ignored by politicians, the long-standing struggle against the construction of hydropower plants (HPPs) in the region is gaining more and more support from Europe and the world. Two world-known…

The inauguration of the largest wind farm in the Western Balkans, the 57-turbine Čibuk 1, was number-one on our English-language Top 3 Most Read list for October. The Top 3…

A working group comprising representatives of various institutions and both political entities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with technical support from GIZ, has produced a Draft catalog of criteria for a…

The Government of Montenegro has decided to terminate contracts for the construction of 10 small hydropower plants (SHPPs) on six rivers in the municipalities of Bijelo Polje, Plav, Andrijevica, and…

Residents of the village of Topli Do on Mt. Stara Planina in Serbia clashed yesterday morning with security and workers accompanying investor Dragan Josić in an attempt to start the…

The European Commission and the Energy Community need to play a role in ending state financial support for destructive hydropower plants in the Western Balkans by ensuring that the EU’s…

The Mt. Stara Planina alliance of local communities has declared a “state of emergency” on that mountain due to violations of the laws and the Constitution of Serbia related to…

Producers of electricity from renewable energy sources in Montenegro received a total of EUR 8.08 million in state incentives in the first seven months of 2019, an increase of 3%…

Police have arrested six employees at Serbia’s state power utility Elektroprivreda Srbije (EPS) in Kraljevo on suspicion of office abuse related to the construction of a power facility for the…