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Photo: Roman PeklajBankwatch: Lack of Coherent Strategy Hinders RES Development in Romania
April 8, 2021 | Peter PalčecElectricity | RES and EE | Energy policy
Romania lacks coherent strategic and policy frameworks that would support the development of the renewables sector and help the country contribute to the goals of the European Green Deal, states a new report from Bankwatch....
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Photo: BISOL GroupSlovenia's BISOL Group to Install Solar Power Plants at “Innovative” Locations
April 8, 2021 | Valerija HozjanElectricity | RES and EE | New technologies
The Slovenian solar panel manufacturer BISOL Group plans to generate at least EUR 5 million of its own investments in Slovenia and elsewhere in Europe by the end of the decade and is already in talks to install solar power plants at several innovative locations, such as brownfields, reservoirs, and highway embankments, the company told Energetika.NET....
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Photo: PlinovodiSerbia to Become a Gas Transit Country From October 2021
April 8, 2021 | Peter PalčecNatural gas | Energy policy
Serbia will become a transit country for the supply of gas to Hungary and Central Europe from 1 October, said Dušan Bajatović, the director of the Serbian state-owned gas monopoly, Srbijagas, according to Capital.ba....
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Photo: MZOEUkraine Looking at Croatian LNG Terminal to Diversify Its Gas Supply
April 7, 2021 | Tanja SrnovršnikNatural gas | Energy policy
The Ukrainian gas TSO, GTSOU, is looking at the recently inaugurated Croatian Krk LNG terminal in a bid to diversify sources of natural gas supplies to Ukraine, said the TSO last week....
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Photo: Alenka Lena KlopčičBiH’s ERS Looking For Creditor to Finance Construction of Four HPPs
April 7, 2021 | Tanja SrnovršnikElectricity
Elektroprivreda Republike Srpske (ERS), one of the three state-owned power utilities in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), has published a tender to secure a loan of EUR 118.7 million for the construction of three hydropower plants (HPPs) with an installed capacity of 45 MW on the Bistrica river and the 160 MW Dabar HPP....
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Photo: FreeDigitalPhotosSerbian Directorate for Energy Efficiency to Be Established By June
April 6, 2021 | Peter PalčecRES and EE | Energy policy
A new Serbian Directorate for Financing and Encouraging Energy Efficiency will be formed by June, according to Serbia’s State Secretary at the Ministry of Mining and Energy, Zoran Lakićević....
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Photo: arhiv Energetike.NETRomanian Government to Provide EUR 20m For Closure of Coal Mines
April 6, 2021 | Peter PalčecCoal | Energy policy
Romania's government will disburse RON 97 million (EUR 20 million) of State aid to the currently insolvent Hunedoara Energy Complex (HEC) to finance the closure of the Lonea and Lupeni coal mines, reports the Romania Insider....
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Photo: PixabayMacedonian Power Utility ESM Commits to Internal Carbon Pricing
April 2, 2021 | Peter PalčecElectricity | Coal | Energy policy | CO2 emissions
The Macedonian state-owned power utility ESM has announced its intent to design and implement an internal mechanism to price the carbon emissions of its plants and operators by the end of 2021 with the support of the Energy Community Secretariat....
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Photo: Roman PeklajBiH Could Face U.S. Sanctions Due to Gas Being Delivered Form Turkish Stream
April 2, 2021 | Peter PalčecNatural gas | Energy policy
Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) started receiving natural gas from Russia via the Turkish Stream gas pipeline at the beginning of April and is now facing the possibility of being subject to U.S. sanctions, reports SEEbiz.eu....
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Photo: Energetika.NETCroatian HEP Plin Acquires Gas Company Gradska Plinara Krapina
April 1, 2021 | Peter PalčecNatural gas | Energy policy
HEP Plin, a gas distribution subsidiary of the Croatian power utility Hrvatska elektroprivreda (HEP), has purchased 100% of the shares in the company Gradska plinara Krapina, thus acquiring ownership of 457 kilometres of the gas distribution network in the county of Krapina-Zagorje....
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