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The 300 MW Ugljevik coal-fired power plant in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) was taken offline on 30 November for an indefinite timeframe, the plant’s operator Rite Ugljevik said on Wednesday.

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Bulgaria’s Chiren gas storage facility looked set to double capacity to 1bcm from early next year, enabling the country to secure sufficient supply over the winter, the energy minister said on

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Non-EU countries in east Europe are unlikely to secure exemption from an EU carbon tax on electricity imports due their delayed alignment with the EU, said the head of representative body the Energy

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Europe’s benchmark carbon price was on course for a 2% weekly loss on Friday, despite having traded at an almost three-month high earlier this week.

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Power purchase agreements (PPAs) will be pivotal in helping EU-aspirant eastern European countries achieve their 2030 green targets, a conference in Slovenian capital Ljubljana heard late on

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The emissions allowance price under the EU’s upcoming trading scheme for buildings and road transport sectors – EU ETS2 – could jump 90% within three years after its launch in 2027, a new report

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Renalfa, a Vienna-based clean energy investment group, confirmed on Friday a 2025 launch for a 238 MW solar plant in Bulgaria after securing EUR 103m in loans with project partner Danish firm

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Recent grid connection delays in Serbia may disrupt upcoming renewables projects and slow the country’s green transition, Aurora Energy Research analysts said on Thursday.

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Bulgaria needs a stable long-term government coalition to unlock its 25 GW wind power potential by 2035 and wean itself off Russian influence that curbs its climate neutrality goals, local energy

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Montenegro state-owned power utility EPCG has started building its first ever renewables project, the 55 MW Gvozd wind farm, set for completion within 18 months as part of its decarbonisation effort,

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The pace of Europe’s deployment of renewable energy meant the EU ETS should hit its 2030 emissions reduction target, the European Commission said in its annual report on the EU ETS on Tuesday.

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Slovenian utility HSE has reconnected to the grid unit 6 (539 MW) of its Sostanj coal-fired power plant on Monday, one day ahead of schedule, it told Montel.