TRADING

EQ: SEE Spot Prices Set to Rise This and Decrease Somewhat Next Week

Date: 24.11.2020 Author: Tanja Srnovršnik

Photo: Roman Peklaj

Spot power prices in South East Europe (SEE) are expected to increase this week to average levels of around 50 EUR/MWh due to decreasing hydropower production, decreasing temperatu...

Albanian PX to Be Launched in H1 2021

Date: 24.11.2020 Author: Tanja Srnovršnik

Photo: Roman Peklaj

The operation of the Albanian power exchange, ALPEX, and the day-ahead market coupling between Kosovo and Albania should be launched simultaneously in the first half of 2021, said ...

Unit 6 of Slovenia’s Šoštanj TPP Back Online

Date: 24.11.2020 Author: Tanja Srnovršnik

Photo: TEŠ

The Slovenian Šoštanj thermal power plant (TPP) synchronised its 600 MW unit 6, which was preventively shut down last Tuesday, back to the Slovenian power grid on Sunday, said the ...

BiH No Longer Pursuing Power Market Coupling Initiatives

Date: 24.11.2020 Author: Tanja Srnovršnik

Photo: Roman Peklaj

The existing state-level law in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) does not envisage any tasks and competences related to the set-up and functioning of a day-ahead market in the country,...

Montenegrin Pljevlja TPP to Reach End of Operational Life By End-2020

Date: 24.11.2020 Author: Tanja Srnovršnik

Photo: EPCG

Several coal-fired power plants in the Energy Community that are under limited lifetime derogation (opt-out) are rapidly getting close to the end of their remaining operational lif...

Secretariat: Kosovo-North Macedonia Gas Link Gaining Momentum

Date: 24.11.2020 Author: Tanja Srnovršnik

Photo: Roman Peklaj

Kosovo has started engaging in developing a feasible and realistic gas supply route from North Macedonia, in addition to, or instead of, the favoured connection with Albania’s gas ...

FOCUS

Energy Community’s RES Capacities Up 19%; North Macedonia and Serbia to Miss Their 2020 Targets

Date: 24.11.2020 Author: Tanja Srnovršnik

Photo: ESM

The Energy Community contracting parties made “genuine progress” in the area of renewable energy in the period from 1 November 2019 to 1 November 2020. There was a 19% increase in ...

EN.VISION

Boštjan Videmšek: Any Technology Can Turn Into a Weapon

Date: 18.11.2020 Author: Alenka Lena Klopčič

Photo: foto: Jana Jocif, www.bukla.si

Success – including in terms of energy self-sufficiency – is possible if matters are not forced but rather implemented by society agreeing to the necessary measures and applying a...

Articles of the day

Slovenian NECP Does Not Foresee Green Hydrogen Production by 2030, but Its Import

Date: 24.11.2020 Author: Tanja Srnovršnik

Photo: Roman Peklaj

Slovenia’s National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP) foresees an indicative target of introducing 10% of renewable methane or hydrogen into the gas pipeline system by 2030. However, ...

EC to Draft World’s First Green List for Sustainable Investment

Date: 24.11.2020 Author: Tanja Srnovršnik

Photo: Gualberto107 via FreeDigitalPhotos

The European Commission launched a public consultation on Friday on the first two sets of criteria for determining which economic activities can qualify as environmentally sustaina...

Slovenian Resalta to Install 1 MW PV Plant on BSH Group’s Factory Rooftop

Date: 24.11.2020 Author: Tanja Srnovršnik

Photo: Ana V. Vršnak

The Slovenian energy efficiency and renewable energy company Resalta will install a 999 kW solar PV power plant on the rooftop of the BSH Hišni aparati factory in Nazarje, Slovenia...