World Bank to support Albania’s energy projects further
The World Bank is eager to help Albania address constraints and overcome challenges in making the energy sector competitive and efficient and expanding integration with neighbours, the organization’s eight executive directors told the government in Tirana, headed by prime minister Edi Rama. The two-day visit organized at the end of last month as part of […]
EVN Macedonia to help large consumers become more energy efficient
Author: Goce Trpkovski, Macedonia By implementing ISO 50001 standard for energy efficiency, Macedonian electric power distribution company EVN Macedonia, part of Austrian EVN, will help some of its largest consumers improve their energy efficiency. The company is already taking part in the second stage of the program for implementing a system of energy management in […]
Memorandum to speed up construction of Mesihovina wind farm
Power utility Elektroprivreda HZHB signed a memorandum of understanding with USAID that should speed up the construction of Mesihovina wind farm. The agreement was signed by the director of USAID Mission to BiH Peter Duffy and the general manager of Elektroprivreda HZHB Marinko Galja, confirming their cooperation on the USAID Energy Investment Activity project. The […]
New session of Renewable Energy Stakeholder’s Forum
USAID Macedonia Clean Energy Investment Project in collaboration with the Renewable Energy (RE) Association within the Chamber of Commerce organized last week the 8th RE Stakeholders’ Forum. The topics for this forum were selected due to the great interest they were expected to raise among the participants, especially the RE investors. In the first panel of the Forum, […]
Grants of EUR 13.3 million set for energy efficiency
The two entities that make up Bosnia and Herzegovina are about to obtain USD 15 million (EUR 13.3 million) from “green development” institutions for energy efficiency measures in buildings, according to Srebrenka Golić, minister for spatial planning, civil engineering and ecology of the Republic of Srpska. Speaking at a regional conference on energy efficiency in […]
USAID, EPBiH to analyze power plant permitting
Peter Duffy, mission director of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and Bajazit Jašarević, general manager of Elektroprivreda Bosne i Hercegovine d.d. (Electric Utility of Bosnia and Herzegovina – EPBiH), signed a memorandum of understanding which defines cooperation between the state-owned company and USAID Energy Investment Activity (EIA) for the analysis of the permitting process […]
Initiative for implementation of photovoltaic systems on rooftops without FITs
The USAID Macedonia Clean Energy Investment Project and the Renewable Energy Association within the Economic Chamber of Macedonia organized a round table on the open issues and possible solutions for implementation of the initiative for placing photovoltaic (PV) systems on the rooftops that will generate electricity without using Feed-in tariff (FiT), due to the high […]
Energy efficiency is the best energy resource
Political will is the first of necessary requirements to reach the maximum use of domestic and sustainable energy resources, according to Konstantin Dimitrov, award-winning inventor, scholar and researcher in areas of energy and energy efficiency, with over 470 papers published in Macedonia and abroad. He told Balkan Green Energy News it is crucial to bring […]