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Photo: KEKStudy: Transition to Renewable Power Generation in Kosovo Viable
August 13, 2018 | Tanja Srnovršnik VolaričElectricity | RES and EE | Coal | Energy policy
Energy transition in Kosovo is technically possible, given the country’s great potentials in wind and solar, as well as its excellent options for connections to Albanian hydropower. Based on levelised cost of electricity (LCOE) calculations, renewables appear to be competitive with a new lignite power plant (Kosova e Re) in Kosovo, even before considering non-market factors such as air...
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Photo: Pozitivna SlovenijaJRC: 160,000 Jobs Could Be Lost in the Transition from Coal
August 8, 2018 | Peter PalčecRES and EE | Coal | Energy policy
A study titled ‘EU coal regions: opportunities and challenges’, published by the Joint Research Centre (JRC), which is the European Commission's science and knowledge service, stated that 160,000 directly-related jobs could potentially be lost as a result of Europe’s transition from coal usage, but with careful planning, regional economies can adapt and create new opportunities for those...
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Photo: www.pixabay.comWWF: EU Should Aim to Reach Zero Net Emissions by 2040
August 3, 2018 | Peter PalčecRES and EE | Transport | Energy policy | CO2 emissions | Economy
Climate change is a challenge unprecedented in human history. Indeed, the current rate of global warming is almost unprecedented in geological history, and the window for limiting temperature rise to 1.5°C is closing rapidly. Staying below 1.5°C is still possible, but the chances of doing so are shrinking rapidly, and based on estimates by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC)...
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Photo: www.pixabay.comDigitisation Can Increase Utilities’ Earnings by 25% in Next 5-10 Years
August 2, 2018 | Tanja Srnovršnik VolaričElectricity | RES and EE | New technologies | Economy
In the short term (2-3 years), a digital transformation has the potential to increase an energy company’s earnings by up to 4% per year. In the long term - over the next five to 10 years - this potential is even higher, reaching 25% a year over present levels, according to consulting company A.T. Kearney....
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Photo: Roman PeklajFintel Energija Launches IPO on Belgrade Stock Exchange
July 27, 2018 | Tanja Srnovršnik VolaričElectricity | Economy
Fintel Energija, the Serbian subsidiary of the Italian renewable energy company Fintel Energia Group, launched an initial public offering (IPO) on Wednesday 25 July on the Belgrade stock exchange, wrote the latter on its website....
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Photo: Roman PeklajGas Market Mergers Not the Only Viable Measure for Further Market Integration
July 25, 2018 | Tanja Srnovršnik VolaričNatural gas | Energy policy
The Council of European Energy Regulators (CEER) has proposed in its study on the future role of gas that a new mechanism should be defined to achieve the merger of trading hubs or markets currently managed by different TSOs. However, Europex, an association of European energy exchanges, thinks that the merging of markets should not be seen as a goal in itself, warning that market mergers do not...
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Photo: UMAS LondonOIES: EU Gas Rules to Be More Favourable to LNG Than to Pipeline Gas
July 24, 2018 | Tanja Srnovršnik VolaričNatural gas | Energy policy
The complexity and ongoing politicisation of the EU gas regulation “will persuade those wishing to bring additional gas to EU countries to do so as LNG rather than as pipeline gas”, wrote Jonathan Stern from the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES) in a preface to a new OIES paper published last week....
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Photo: DhakaTribuneMcKinsey: Utilities Massively Underperforming; Decisive Action Needed
July 16, 2018 | Tanja Srnovršnik VolaričElectricity | Energy policy | New technologies | Economy
Despite the sharp growth in global demand for electricity, global utilities have lost value or posted below-average returns and over the last decade have delivered average shareholder returns of just about 1%, said consultancy McKinsey in a report published on its website. McKinsey offered utilities “four principles for success”....
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Photo: PlinovodiSlovenian Gas Imports from Austria Increase to 75% in 2017
July 12, 2018 | Tanja Srnovršnik VolaričNatural gas | Energy policy
Slovenian traders, that is suppliers, purchased 75% of the gas required for supply on the domestic market in Austria (at the Baumgarten gas hub and in Austrian storages) in 2017, whereas in the four years prior the share of gas imports from Austria was slightly above 60%, the Slovenian Energy Agency wrote in its Report on the Energy Sector in Slovenia for 2017....
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Photo: © European Communities, 2009Pototschnig: More Needs to be Done to Encourage Increased Cross-Border Flows
July 9, 2018 | Tanja S. Volarič, Alenka ŽumbarElectricity | Energy policy
“European TSOs are currently prioritising internal electricity exchanges, which means that cross-border power exchanges only get the leftovers. Instead we would like to see that internal exchanges are not a limiting factor in defining cross-border capacity,” Alberto Pototschnig, Director of the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER), told Energetika.NET on the sidelines of...
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