The Ministry of Energy of Bulgaria doesn’t intend to publish the second call for subsidies for households for solar panels with batteries and solar collectors. The program is partly covered by the European Union’s Recovery and Resilience Facility, so now the country risks losing the funds. The Ministry of Energy of Bulgaria told Kapital that […]
Prime Batteries Technology and Enevo Group won Hidroelectrica’s tender for the installation of a battery energy storage system of 36 MW with a two-hour duration at the power utility’s Crucea Nord wind park. A renewable energy hub is in the making in the small communes of Crucea and Pantelimon in the Dobruja (Dobrogea) province in […]
The agenda of the third Belgrade Energy Forum, taking place on May 14-15, has been finalized with the addition of further prominent energy experts and companies. The conference, organized by Southeast Europe’s leading energy news portal, Balkan Green Energy News, will feature eight panels covering key topics in the energy sector, with an impressive lineup […]
Greek renewable energy producers are fearful of any delay in the deployment of battery energy storage systems, because of high curtailments. The sector expects that in a hypothetical scenario without the storage, the curtailments would rise to 25% by 2030, compared to last year’s 3.3%. So far in 2025, curtailments have risen further. According to […]
Public Power Corp. (PPC) presented a EUR 5.8 billion investment plan for the coal region of Western Macedonia in northern Greece. It held the ceremony in the retired Kardia 2 lignite-fired power plant. According to PPC’s chairman and CEO George Stassis, the endeavor consists of the decommissioning of old assets and the rollout of new […]
The European Investment Bank is providing a EUR 33 million loan for a solar power plant of 120 MW in peak capacity. Government-controlled power utility KEK plans to install it on its former coal ash dump near Prishtina. The European Investment Bank (EIB) signed a EUR 33 million investment loan for the construction of a […]
Only after the first auction was held, lawmakers in Prishtina enabled subsidizing renewable electricity plants through contracts for difference (CfDs). Passing the Law on the Promotion of the Use of Renewable Energy Sources, they also cleared the way for the introduction of guarantees of origin, a renewable energy operator and support fund, energy communities and […]
Millennium Challenge Account Kosovo invited qualified companies to respond to the prequalification call for a battery storage project. The two lots are for 45 MW and 125 MW in operating power, with a duration of two hours. The United States, acting through its Millennium Challenge Corp. (MCC) and the Government of Kosovo*, entered into a […]
Serbia’s transmission system operator Elektromreža Srbije received two grid connection applications for battery energy storage systems. They are the first energy storage projects in the country. Investments in battery energy storage systems (BESS) is ramping up around the world and Serbia is now making its first steps. Annual installations have increased more than 12 times […]
A new ministerial decree sets the framework for the installation of 3.55 GW of energy storage – standalone batteries, without subsidies. The new framework for batteries, presented by the Ministry of Environment and Energy, is under public consultation. It drastically increases the ambition, originally for between 2 GW and 2.5 GW. Now the government aims […]