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Photo: arhiv Energetike.NETGazprom Energoholding Interested in Investments in Serbia
October 22, 2018 | Peter PalčecElectricity | Energy policy
Serbia’s Minister of Mining and Energy, Aleksandar Antić, and the Russian electric power company Gazprom Energoholding, a subsidiary of Gazprom, met in Belgrade to discuss energy projects investment opportunities in Serbia, as the company's new portfolio envisions expanding business to the European and Asian markets. Serbia is seen as an attractive market for further investments, states a press...
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Photo: www.pixabay.comBulgaria CPC Declines to Issue New Ruling in ČEZ Assets Sale
October 22, 2018 | Peter PalčecElectricity | Energy policy | Economy
The Bulgarian Commission for the Protection of Competition (CPC) will not re-examine the proposed sale of all the assets owned by Czech energy group ČEZ in Bulgaria to the local company Inercom Bulgaria, reported Sofiaglobe.com....
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Photo: Andreja KrašnaMontenegro to Spend EUR 81.61m on Revitalisation of Its Power Distribution Grid
October 22, 2018 | Peter PalčecElectricity | Energy policy
The Montenegrin Energy Regulatory Agency has granted an approval to the updated urgent three-year investment plan 2019-2021 of the distribution system operator (DSO), which envisages that EUR 81.61 million will be spent on an intense revitalisation of the electricity distribution network, states a press release from the Montenegrin government....
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Photo: www.riteugljevik.comCourt to Decide Slovenia’s Dispute Agains BiH’s RiTE Ugljevik by End-2018
October 22, 2018 | Peter PalčecElectricity | Coal | Energy policy
The arbitration tribunal in Washington (the International Centre for Solving Investment Disputes – ICISID) will decide by the end of 2018 in the case of the KM 1.4 billion (EUR 654 million) worth lawsuit of the Slovenian company Elektrogospodarstvo Slovenije - razvoj in inženiring d.o.o. (EGS-RI) against Bosnia and Herzegovina’s (BiH) mine and thermal power plant RiTE Ugljevik, reported...
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Photo: www.pixabay.comEuropean Commission Relaunches ACER Director Selection Procedure
October 22, 2018 | Peter PalčecEnergy policy
The European Commission has relaunched the procedure to select the next director of the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER), as the procedure for the selection of a new director launched on 30 August 2017 did not result in an appointment, states a press release from ACER....
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Photo: PlinovodiEBRD Approves Financing Concept for BiH’s South Interconnection Project
October 22, 2018 | Peter PalčecNatural gas | Energy policy
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has approved the financing concept for construction of the South Gas Interconnection between Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and Croatia, which includes construction of the Zagvozd-Posušje-Novi Travnik/Travnik gas pipeline, with one part leading to Mostar, states a press release published on the website of BH-Gas, BiH’s gas TSO....
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Photo: Daniel M. KammenKammen: Gas Plants Should be Voluntarily Retired in 2040s
October 19, 2018 | Tanja Srnovršnik Volarič, CopenhagenElectricity | Natural gas | RES and EE | Coal | Energy policy | CO2 emissions
A new IPCC report shows that even though we are moving slowly, we still have a chance of fending offt some of the worst climate change. However, every day we delay, it will be harder to reach roughly 90% of global decarbonisation by 2050, said Daniel M. Kammen, lead author for the IPCC, winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, and professor at UC Berkeley, on Thursday at InnoEnergy’s TBB (The...
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Photo: TAP AGSerbian Transit Gas Pipeline Exempted from Third-Party Access
October 19, 2018 | Tanja Srnovršnik VolaričNatural gas | Energy policy
The Serbian energy regulator, AERS, has approved an exemption from the third-party access and unbundling obligations for the Serbian section of the gas pipeline connecting the Bulgarian and Hungarian gas transmission systems....
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Photo: PlinovodiSerbia's Srbijagas to Invest EUR 3bn in the Next 5 Years
October 19, 2018 | Peter PalčecNatural gas | Energy policy
The Serbian state-owned gas company Srbijagas will invest EUR 3 billion in the modernisation of existing and the building of new gas infrastructure in Serbia, according to Dušan Bajatović, CEO of Srbijagas, reported Novosti.rs....
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Photo: ShutterstockGas Consumption in Croatia Down 11.4% This Year
October 19, 2018 | Andreja ŠalamunNatural gas | Energy policy | Economy
The Croatian state-owned power utility Hrvatska elektroprivreda (HEP), the Croatian gas TSO, Plinacro, and Croatia’s state-owned gas storage facility, Podzemno Skladište Plina (PSP), are expecting the coming season to have solid gas storage and sufficient transport capacities for supplying or importing gas, said the companies at the 16th Gas Days of the Croatian Gas Association (HSUP), reported...
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