Slovenia pays EUR 135 million in renewable energy, CHP subsidies in 2018
Slovenia’s support payments for electricity from renewable energy sources and high-efficiency cogeneration (combined heat and power – CHP) reached EUR 135.1 million in 2018. The largest amount, EUR 62.8 million, was paid to owners of solar power plants, while fossil fuel CHP generated the biggest share of energy – 320.5 GWh. According to Slovenian power […]
ERS to build 1,000 MW renewable energy power plants over next 10 years
Public power utility Elektroprivreda Republike Srpske (ERS) aims to invest EUR 1.25 billion in 1,000-MW renewable energy power plants over the next 10 years, said ERS general manager Luka Petrović. As the company has an enormous potential to use renewables, the ERS strategy is to build 1,000 MW renewable energy power plants over the next […]
HEP to invest around EUR 100 million in solar power plants by end-2023
The Kaštelir, Cres, Vis, and Vrlika Jug solar power plants, with a combined capacity of 11.6 MW and value of over EUR 10 million, are the first four solar power plants that state power utility Hrvatska Elektroprivreda (HEP) plans to build as part of a major investment cycle to soak around EUR 100 million by […]
Slovenia’s Kobarid eyes solar, heat pumps for energy self-sufficiency
The Slovenian municipality of Kobarid is eyeing an uptake in renewable energy self-supply to ensure environmental sustainability that would, in turn, foster tourism development in the town immortalized in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms. Kobarid, Slovenia’s westernmost municipality, is looking to gradually achieve energy self-sufficiency with the aim of surpassing the EU’s target of […]
GEN-I, RCeNeM set up first B2B solar power plant in Slovenia
Slovenian glassmaker Steklarna Hrastnik has installed the first B2B solar power plant in Slovenia, set up by GEN-I and Razvojni center Novi materiali (RCeNeM). Steklarna Hrastnik will use the generated electricity for the production of hydrogen, thus reducing CO2 emissions. According to GEN-I’s press release, the construction of the solar power plant is part of […]
Tendering: ELEM seeks bids to supply, install 10 MW Oslomej solar power plant
North Macedonia’s state-owned electricity producer ELEM has invited bids to supply and install a 10 MW solar photovoltaic (PV) power plant adjacent to its Oslomej coal power plant. The solar power plant is the biggest currently planned in the country, Deputy Prime Minister Koco Angjusev told a news conference. ELEM plans to develop a 10 […]
Crowdfunding project raises funds for solar power plant in just 48 hours
Zelena Energetska Zadruga (ZEZ) has successfully collected HRK 172,000 (about EUR 23,200) in only 48 hours for the construction of a solar power plant, under its second crowdfunding project financed through micro loans through a campaign called Križevački Sunčani Krovovi. Under the first project, ZEZ needed 10 days to collect the needed funds from citizens. […]
North Macedonia, Montenegro, BiH announce shift in regulatory framework, tendering for renewables
North Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and partly Serbia, among other Energy Community Contracting Parties, are about to make some major changes in the renewable energy sector. The regulatory framework is being changed, and tendering for solar and wind power is to be introduced. These are some of the highlights from the 7th Energy Community […]