By Filipe Araùjo, Deputy Mayor of Porto, Portugal and Vice President of Energy Cities,one of EUSEW partner organisations With the new EU Institutions taking office, it seems that the main discourse has shifted from the EU Green Deal to competitiveness. This new narrative presents both a challenge and an opportunity for European cities. We want […]
France-based Heliup has been awarded the Gold European Solar Startup Award 2025 for its Stykon solar PV panels for flat rooftops. Following a successful online pitch, Heliup, Aevy and suena were nominated by the expert panel as finalists. Yannick Veschetti, President and Co-founder of Heliup, Gautier Moulin, Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Aevy, and […]
Monsson Group is preparing to build a manufacturing facility in Petrila for renewable energy equipment, including robots that clean solar panels. The project received funding to contribute to the just transition of Romania’s coal region Jiu valley – Hunedoara. An investment of nearly EUR 10 million in the first phase is underway in Transylvania, in […]
Montenegro’s transmission system operator CGES recorded a profit of EUR 24.8 million last year. The net income of TSO CGES compares to EUR 35.7 million from 2023. In 2022, the company’s profit amounted to EUR 20.3 million, after EUR 16.9 million in the previous year. President of the Board of Directors of CGES Aleksandar Mijušković […]
Greece’s government-controlled power utility PPC and Masdar’s subsidiary Terna Energy are separately building two photovoltaic plants in Bulgaria, worth an estimated EUR 190 million in total. The biggest two renewable energy companies in Greece have taken over one major project each in neighboring Bulgaria, where domestic investors dominated the photovoltaics market until recently. Soon after […]
Germany is increasingly looking into geothermal energy storage as a way of decarbonizing its heating sector. The technology allows storing heated water in underground caverns and using it for warming homes and public and private buildings during winter, according to a report by Clean Energy Wire. This thermal energy storage system, called Geotes, promises “the […]
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has frozen USD 20 billion in funding for greenhouse gas reduction projects, citing, among other things, concerns over potential fraud, waste, and abuse, news agencies reported. The move prompted a lawsuit by environmental NGO Climate United Fund, one of the beneficiaries of the program aimed at financing thousands of […]
Seven cities and regions in the Western Balkans will receive financial and technical support to enhance their climate resilience. Four local authorities in Albania and one each in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Serbia are among the 69 in 23 countries selected within the CLIMAAX call for applications. As a result of the two open […]
Informal environmentalist organization Eko Straža has submitted a letter to the Delegation of the European Union to Serbia urging the EU not to grant strategic status to Rio Tinto’s Jadar project in the country. The letter opposing the lithium mining and processing project is backed by the signatures of 100,000 citizens. Bojan Simišić of Eko […]
Two weeks after the local authorities and residents of the municipality of Lopare voiced their opposition to plans to open a lithium mine on Mount Majevica, the City of Tuzla sent a similar message. A few days ago, the Tuzla city council adopted a document requesting a ban on the mining of lithium and similar […]