interviews
Photo: Energetika LjubljanaSamo Lozej: CCGT Plant Is One of Energetika Ljubljana’s Top Investment Priorities
February 11, 2019 | Alenka ŽumbarElectricity | RES and EE | Economy | Heating
The Slovenian energy supplier Energetika Ljubljana, a public company integrated in Javni holding Ljubljana (JHL), made an estimated profit of around EUR 90,000 in 2018, while its 2019 target is to reach as high as EUR 200,000, said JHL in a press release earlier this year. Energetika Ljubljana ended the year 2018 by implementing its project for supplying consumers in the area of Grosuplje,...
Read more
Photo: PlinacroArar, Plinacro: LNG Terminal and IAP to Enable Croatia to Become Important Gas Hub
February 4, 2019 | Tanja SrnovršnikNatural gas | Energy policy | Economy
Croatia still has plans to become a gas hub, and in order to achieve this, it is necessary for the country to complete strategic projects such as the LNG terminal and the Ionian Adriatic Pipeline (IAP) project, so that supply routes will cross on the territory of Croatia, said Ivica Arar, President of the Management Board of the Croatian gas TSO, Plinacro, in an interview for Energetika.NET. With...
Read more
Photo: LinkedinPellerin-Carlin, JDI: Making Your Business 'Future Energy Policy-Proof' Requires Innovation over Time
January 28, 2019 | Tanja Srnovršnik, Alenka ŽumbarElectricity | New technologies | Economy
“Policy can kill the profitability of a given project, but it can also make the profitability of a given project,” noted Thomas Pellerin-Carlin from the Jacques Delors Institute at November's European Utility Week (EUW) in Vienna, Austria. Therefore, one of the main lessons is that utilities need to make sure their business is “future energy policy-proof”, said Pellerin-Carlin, who will...
Read more
Photo: osebni arhivErwin Smole, EWF: An Increasing Number of Blockchain Trials Successful
January 21, 2019 | Tanja Srnovršnik, Alenka ŽumbarElectricity | New technologies
The dust around blockchain technology has settled, making the good startups and companies with working solutions more visible, Erwin Smole, Strategic Advisor at the Energy Web Foundation (EWF), told Energetika.NET in an interview, noting that an increasing number of trials are successful. According to Smole, certificates and tracking are currently the most interesting use cases in the energy...
Read more
Photo: osebni arhivJeremy Gordon: The Future of the EU’s NPPs is Paramount to the Future of Nuclear Power Overall
January 14, 2019 | Alenka ŽumbarElectricity | Energy policy | CO2 emissions
The EU as a whole is the largest part of the nuclear industry. Therefore, the future of the EU’s nuclear plants is paramount to the future of nuclear power overall, said Jeremy Gordon, who is responsible for communication at the World Nuclear Association (WNA), in an interview for Energetika.NET. Whilst the EU already has a leading role in climate change policy and a lot of targets - also for...
Read more
Photo: HZBDr Bernd Rech, Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin: PV is Still a Young Technology
December 31, 2018 | Alenka ŽumbarElectricity | RES and EE | New technologies
In a special ceremony in mid-December, Slovenia's President, Borut Pahor, awarded the ‘Apple of Inspiration' to the scientists behind the efficiency record for a monolithic perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell. The award was presented to Dr. Marko Jošt, Dr. Steve Albrecht, Dr. Benjamin Lipovšek, Dr. Janez Krč, Dr. Marko Topič and Dr. Bernd Rech. Rech, who is the director of Helmholtz Zentrum...
Read more
Photo: Andreja ŠalamunIvan Zoković, ZEZ: People Want to Invest in Energy
December 17, 2018 | Andreja ŠalamunElectricity | RES and EE | Energy policy | New technologies | Economy
“At first, we thought that only our friends and relatives would respond to the energy project crowdfunding, but we were very surprised, as we also received responses from complete strangers,” Ivan Zoković of Green Energy Cooperative (ZEZ) Zagreb told Energetika.NET on the sidelines of the 3rd national From Words to Action Conference, organised recently by the Ljubljana-based NGOs Umanotera...
Read more
Photo: Ascent ResourcesColin Hutchinson, Ascent Resources: There is a Lot of Potential in Petišovci Gas Project
December 10, 2018 | Ana Vučina VršnakNatural gas | Energy policy
Colin Hutchinson is CEO of Ascent Resources, a U.K.-based oil and gas production and exploration company, which has invested millions of euros into the Slovenian Petišovci gas project. However, Ascent Resources has been waiting for an IPPC permit for more than four years and had the company known how long the process was going to last, it probably would not have invested in it in the first place....
Read more
Photo: Ana V. VršnakBojan Kumer: I See No Reason for Excluding Nuclear from Slovenia’s Energy Concept
December 3, 2018 | Ana Vučina VršnakElectricity | RES and EE | Transport | Energy policy | Economy
The new Slovenian government plans to adopt in 2019 both Slovenia's Energy Concept – the country’s key energy strategy document, and the National Energy and Climate Plan, said the new (and former) State Secretary at the Ministry of Infrastructure, Bojan Kumer. According to Kumer, the final Energy Concept should be more specific than its current draft. Some things are clear: Slovenia will have...
Read more
Photo: osebni arhivAnjos Nijk, ENCS: Serious Investment in Cyber Security Needed in Energy Sector
November 26, 2018 | Tanja Srnovršnik VolaričElectricity | Energy policy | New technologies
Whilst smart grids create a host of opportunities for network operators, unless we are careful the same will be true for hackers, warned Anjos Nijk, Managing Director of the European Network for Cyber Security (ENCS), a non-profit member organisation supporting the deployment of secure European critical energy grids and infrastructure, in a recent posting on the ENCS website. According to Nijk, as...
Read more
