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Photo: Roman PeklajGovernance Regulation to Improve Investment Certainty for Renewables
October 11, 2018 | Tanja Srnovršnik Volarič, ViennaElectricity | Natural gas | RES and EE | Energy policy
The EU governance regulation, which sets the rules and framework for how countries meet their renewables and energy efficiency targets, will hopefully come into effect at the end of this year and will improve investment certainty for renewables, said Megan Richards, Director of the Directorate-General for Energy at the European Commission, on Tuesday at the Eurogas Central and Eastern European...
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Photo: PixabaySouthern Europe Is Where Batteries Make Highest Economic Sense
October 11, 2018 | Ana Vučina VršnakElectricity | RES and EE | New technologies | Economy
Since the use of batteries to support the large-scale integration of renewable energy and a consumer-centred energy transition has been identified as key by the European Commission, a report has been commissioned in the framework of the BRIDGE initiative (the co-operation group of Horizon 2020 projects in the field of Smart Grids and Energy Storage) which reveals that most of the demonstration...
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Photo: Roman PeklajACER: EU Reliance on Gas Imports Up 10% in 2017
October 4, 2018 | Tanja Srnovršnik VolaričNatural gas | Energy policy
EU reliance on external gas imports continued to increase in 2017 (+10% compared to 2016) to cover for reduced domestic production (-3% compared to 2016) and growing consumption. A lower cap on the extraction of gas from the Dutch Groningen field limited total EU indigenous production to 24% of EU supplies, according to the latest Market Monitoring Report (Gas Wholesale Markets Volume), published...
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Photo: Ana V. VršnakDistribution System Requires Strengthening – But to What Extent?
October 3, 2018 | Ana Vučina VršnakElectricity | RES and EE | New technologies
A report by the Norwegian DNV GL shows that rapid electrification (in traffic, buildings, and manufacturing) and a rise in wind and solar will lead to a massive expansion of power transmission and distribution systems. Their length and their capacity are expected to more than triple by 2050. The CEO of the Slovenian electricity TSO, ELES, Aleksander Mervar, generally agrees with the statement:...
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Photo: Schneider ElectricPaić, Schneider Electric: Countries in SEE Investing More in Digitalisation
September 25, 2018 | Peter PalčecElectricity | Energy policy
“Schneider Electric is currently working on different projects across the South East Europe region related to either the preparation or implementation of distribution network digitisation. We are extremely active, since many countries are starting to invest in digital solutions that can really optimise the work of distribution systems. The key advantages to digitalisation, which are universally...
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Photo: PetrolCoface: Slovenian Petrol Top SEE Energy Company
September 19, 2018 | Tanja Srnovršnik VolaričElectricity | Oil and oil derivates | Economy
The traditional backbone of the top 500 companies in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) - the regional oil and gas giants - are back on track after a recovery of oil prices in 2017, according to the 2015 report on the Top 500 companies in CEE by the international credit insurance company Coface. Looking at South East Europe (SEE), the Slovenian energy company Petrol ranked the best, whilst the...
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Photo: Elektro GorenjskaSTORY Project’s Medium-Scale Storage Unit Put into Operation in Slovenia’s Suha
September 17, 2018 | Andreja ŠalamunElectricity | RES and EE | New technologies | Economy
As part of the STORY project, the Slovenian power distributor Elektro Gorenjska, together with Belgium’s ABB, Finland’s VTT Institute, and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Ljubljana, put into operation a medium-scale battery system in the Slovenian village of Suha in late August. The aim was to demonstrate the ease of its integration into the existing infrastructure, its control and...
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Photo: Andreja ŠalamunNuclear Energy Must Be Equal to Other Low-Carbon Sources
September 12, 2018 | Andreja ŠalamunElectricity | Energy policy | Economy
“As much as 70% of the world’s electricity used today is generated from fossil sources, however, if we want to achieve the 2050 goals, we will need to generate 80% of our electricity from low-carbon sources,” said the State Secretary at the Slovenian Ministry of Infrastructure (MzI), Klemen Potisek, at the opening of the 27th International Conference Nuclear Energy for New Europe (NENE 2018)...
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Photo: Luka SnojGlobal Boom of Nuclear Energy; What About Slovenia?
September 10, 2018 | Alenka ŽumbarElectricity | Energy policy
The general public around the globe can learn a lot from Fukushima, and the lessons learned can be used by the nuclear industry to strengthen global co-operation. This was the key message of Friday's lecture by Dr. John Kelly, President of the American Nuclear Society, on the accident in the Japanese Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in March 2011. Dr. Kelly, who held his lecture in front of...
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Photo: Andreja ŠalamunUniversity of Glasgow: Liquid Battery Could Lead to Flexible Energy Storage
September 6, 2018 | Andreja ŠalamunElectricity | RES and EE | Energy policy | CO2 emissions | New technologies | Economy | Ecology
In a new paper published recently in the journal Nature Chemistry, chemists from the University of Glasgow discuss how they developed a flow battery system using a nano-molecule that can store electric power or hydrogen gas giving a new type of hybrid energy storage system that can be used as a flow battery or for hydrogen storage. According to the researchers, one potential benefit of this system...
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