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Macedonia’s final national energy and climate plan (NECP) should include more elaborated coal phase out plans, in particular related to the decommissioning of the Bitola coal-fired power plant, as

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Renewables and energy efficiency, alongside an expanded role for electricity in total final consumption of end uses, could offset more than 1,500 billion cubic metres (bcm) of global gas demand by

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“No new coal units will be built in Romania,” confirmed Romania’s Minister of Economy, Energy and the Business Environment, Virgil Popescu, in an interview for Euronews. This was especially

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CEE Bankwatch Network is looking for a consultant to identify and analyse sustainable heating solutions for the town of Pljevlja in Montenegro. As heating is becoming an increasingly important element

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Kosovo’s power generation amounted to 1,580.8 GWh in the third quarter of 2020, up compared to the 1,417.3 GWh produced in the same period in 2019. Of this amount, 1,537.6 GWh were produced in

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A demise of coal-fired power generation in Europe can expect to start as of 2023-25, said Diana Bacila, Senior Analyst at Alpiq, in the latest Montel Weekly podcast. Bacila predicts that both market

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The Ministry of Physical Planning and Environmental Protection of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s (BiH) Canton of Sarajevo has started drafting a strategy to restrict the use of coal and other solid fuels

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“We will reform the energy and mining sectors in order to encourage more investments,” said Serbia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Mining and Energy, Zorana Mihajlović, following a

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It will cost more to operate up to 1,200 GW of existing coal-fired capacity by 2021 than it would cost to install new utility-scale solar PV, estimates the International Renewable Energy Agency

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Just seven EU member states will be responsible for 80% of the EU’s power sector emissions by 2030 and could cause the EU to miss its emissions targets, warned the climate think tank Ember on

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Coal-fired power plants will be removed from the so-called capacity mechanism in 2025 and will have to buy emissions on the free market. Each plant will then have to assess how it will survive on the

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The main findings of a new study on fossil fuel subsidies conducted by the Energy Community Secretariat indicate that fossil fuel subsidies, such as those in the European Union (EU), continue to pose