TRADING

Bulgarian Bulgargaz to Reserve Up to 500mcm IGB Gas Transmission Capacity

Date: 23.01.2020 Author: Tanja Srnovršnik

Photo: www.gov.bg

The Bulgarian state gas provider Bulgargaz will reserve additional capacity for transmission via the Greece-Bulgaria interconnector (IGB) of up to 500 million cubic metres per year...

DAM Volumes on Bulgarian IBEX Reach 8.4 TWh in 2019

Date: 23.01.2020 Author: Tanja Srnovršnik

Photo: ACER

A total of 8.4 TWh was traded through the Bulgarian power exchange IBEX’s day-ahead platform in 2019, up 43.14% compared to 2018, said IBEX on Wednesday....

Slovenia’s Šoštanj TPP Plans Four Two-week Shutdowns of Unit 6 This Year

Date: 23.01.2020 Author: Tanja Srnovršnik

Photo: TEŠ

As many as four two-week shutdowns of the 600 MW unit 6 of the Šoštanj thermal power plant (TPP) for emergency maintenance work are planned for this year, said the CEO of the Slove...

Bankwatch: Serbia’s Regulation on Incentives for RES No Longer in Place

Date: 23.01.2020 Author: Tanja Srnovršnik

Photo: arhiv Energetike.NET

Serbia’s Ministry of Mining and Energy announced last week that its regulation governing incentive measures for renewable energy and cogeneration is no longer in force. “This, for ...

Croatia Completes First Part of SINCRO.GRID Project

Date: 23.01.2020 Author: Tanja Srnovršnik

Photo: Siemens

The commissioning of the variable shunt reactor (VSR) at the 220/110 kV Mraclin transformer station has completed implementation of the first part of the Slovenian-Croatian SINCRO....

Montenegrin EPCG Signs Contract for Five Transformers for Perućica HPP

Date: 23.01.2020 Author: Tanja Srnovršnik

Photo: Alenka Lena Klopčič

The Montenegrin power utility, Elektroprivreda Crne Gore (EPCG), and a consortium of Končar DST and Electro Team signed a contract worth EUR 2.25 million on Wednesday, which envisa...

Articles of the day

Von Der Leyen: Carbon Border Tax Remains Option to Address Unfair Competition

Date: 23.01.2020 Author: Tanja Srnovršnik

Photo: Pixabay

The European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, warned EU trade partners at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that a carbon border tax remains a viable optio...

Eurelectric: ENTSOs' TYNDP at Odds With EU’s Climate Neutrality Goal

Date: 23.01.2020 Author: Tanja Srnovršnik

Photo: Roman Peklaj

The draft joint Scenario Report for the Ten Year Network Development Plan (TYNDP) 2020, prepared by the European networks of TSOs for electricity and gas - ENTSO-E and ENTSOG - is ...

Romanian Energy-intensive Companies to Receive EUR 331m State Aid

Date: 23.01.2020 Author: Tanja Srnovršnik

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About 170 industrial companies in Romania will receive State aid for energy totalling EUR 331 million over the next three years, under an emergency ordinance (OUG 81/2019) passed b...

FOCUS

EVs, Renewables and Digitalisation Will Drive Grid Operators’ Flexibility Use

Date: 23.01.2020 Author: Tanja Srnovršnik

Photo: Roman Peklaj

The use of demand-side flexibility by network operators has so far been low. However, this will change with the increase in the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) and renewables a...

STARTUP

ABC Accelerator’s Open Day Unveils New Startup Opportunities

Date: 20.12.2019 Author: Energetika.NET

Photo: Katja Kodba

Under the recently launched European Green Deal, the EU aims to become the first climate neutral continent by 2050, and cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 50 to 55% by 2030, said ...

INTERVIEW

Tomaž Žagar: We Can Imagine Two New NPPs Being Built in Slovenia's Krško

Date: 20.01.2020 Author: Valerija Hozjan

Photo: Boštjan Colarič

The siting of a new facility, even at an existing energy location, is a long-term, political, environmental, and social project, explained Tomaž Žagar, President of the Nuclear Soc...