Veolia received a green light from Bulgaria’s capital city to install two hydropower generators within the city’s major water supply lines. The system is envisaged to generate 12 GWh of electricity per year. Mostly owned by local authorities and underfunded, water and sewerage utilities in Southeastern Europe are struggling to provide enough drinking water and […]
The Government of Slovenia has awarded a concession for geothermal exploration in the municipality of Lendava to Verde Energy. Slovenia doesn’t yet use geothermal energy for electricity production. It is the first concession awarded for geothermal energy, marking an important step toward decarbonizing the Pomurje region, according to the Government of Slovenia. Lendava is also […]
The Romanian Government has drafted a state aid mechanism for the production and transport of geothermal energy for district heating or cooling systems. The proposed scheme would be worth EUR 300 million, sourced from the European Union’s Modernisation Fund. In addition to solar and wind energy, hydropower and battery energy storage systems, Romania is increasingly […]
Margün Energy intends to search for lithium in geothermal waters in Seferihisar in western Turkey, where it took over a 12 MW geothermal power plant. It also launched a project to add a photovoltaic unit of 5.4 MW to the existing facility and create a hybrid power plant. Turkey, the fourth in the world in […]
Slovenia is very close to equipping all electricity consumers with smart meters, while Croatia is within reach of achieving it in the non-home segment, but far behind in the household category, according to the latest data from the EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER). At the top of the list of European […]
Greece’s distribution system operator HEDNO added more than 20,000 prosumers in the past year and a half, although the new net billing program faces delays. Last year the government in Athens formally ended the net metering scheme and enacted net billing, aligning with the European Union’s regulations. Any aspiring prosumer with an existing application can […]
The Government of Serbia is interested in taking over the Plandište wind farm project from oil and gas company Naftna Industrija Srbije and renewable energy firm MET Renewables. They have been jointly developing the project for over ten years. The Plandište project, with a capacity of 102 MW, was a topic at the latest meeting […]
The Government of Montenegro adopted urban planning and technical conditions for a solar power plant of 81.1 MW in peak capacity in Pljevlja. The site for the facility is part of a coal mining complex. Greece is the most successful by far in the Balkans in transforming coal land into clean energy and advanced technology […]
RP Global has secured a EUR 12.2 million loan to build its Novalja solar power plant in Croatia. In late April, Austrian company RP Global began the construction of the Novalja photovoltaic plant at the Zaglava site on the island of Pag. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) said it approved a senior […]
Faria Renewables has signed a loan agreement with Attica Bank for the construction of a battery energy storage system (BESS). The project is worth EUR 28 million. In addition, Cero Generation passed a milestone toward a 250 MW battery storage investment. A BESS project selected last year in Greece’s second battery storage auction is now […]