Serbia is preparing to introduce carbon pricing, Jovana Joksimović, Assistant Minister of Mining and Energy for International Cooperation and European Integration, has announced. The authorities are preparing a comprehensive analysis of carbon pricing for all products that will be affected by the European Union’s (EU) Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), Jovana Joksimović said at a […]
The 64 MW solar power plant Stolac Solarni Park, located near the city of Stolac in the Herzegovina region of Bosnia and Herzegovina, has been connected to the grid and has begun generating electricity. No further details have been disclosed, but the facility appears to be an extension of Hodovo, the largest photovoltaic plant in […]
Global Wind Day, celebrated every year on June 15, was first marked in 2007 as a joint initiative of WindEurope and the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC). The European Union will need more than 200,000 trained workers in the wind energy sector in the future, which is why this year’s focus of Global Wind Day […]
State-owned power company Elektroprivreda Crne Gore is currently implementing three key strategic policies: producing energy at the point of consumption, utilizing existing hydropower infrastructure to connect solar power plants, and developing battery energy storage systems, the President of EPCG’s Board of Directors, Milutin Đukanović, said at the EPCG NET conference. EPCG NET is organized by […]
The National Alliance for Local Economic Development (NALED) has called on the authorities to establish a regulatory framework that would shield Serbia’s energy-intensive industries from the impact of the European Union’s (EU) Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), which threatens jobs and businesses employing about 7% of the country’s workforce and accounting for 11% of its […]
France’s state-owned power utility Électricité de France (EDF) is investigating apparent corrosion cracks found at a 1.5 GW nuclear reactor in the country’s west, which has been offline for annual maintenance since early April. The potential defect has pushed up electricity prices and raised concerns about energy security. EDF, which manages France’s nuclear fleet of […]
SunCarlito Beta has offered tokens worth EUR 1.7 million to raise funds for installing a 2.2 MW solar power plant near the northern Serbian city of Subotica. The deadline to purchase the tokens is July 9. Investors can buy 3,402 tokens called Solar Token ST_1, priced at EUR 500 each. This is the second token […]
The World Bank has decided to end its 2013 moratorium on financing nuclear energy projects amid growing global electricity demand. The move means the lender would support projects to extend the operating life of existing nuclear power plants and speed up the rollout of small modular reactors (SMRs). The World Bank board’s decision comes at […]
Serbia is expected to finish drafting its energy storage regulations by the end of the year, completing its already strong regulatory framework for renewables, according to Svetlana Cerović, Head of Specialized Lending at UniCredit Bank Serbia. In the next auction for market premiums, Serbia should consider recognizing the contribution of projects involving energy storage, she […]
Slovenian non-governmental organization Mladi za Podnebno Pravičnost (Youth for Climate Justice) has conducted what it claims to be the first independent economic study on the construction of a second unit of the Krško nuclear power plant. The economic study on the Krško 2 project (JEK2) showed that the project would not be profitable for a […]