Croatia’s Regional Energy Agency North has launched VIREAS – a virtual energy assistant powered by artificial intelligence. VIREAS answers users’ questions about energy renovation and renewable energy sources in real time, provides recommendations tailored to users’ homes and needs, helps identify opportunities to save energy and reduce costs, and explains technical concepts in simple terms, […]
The Ministry of the Environment, Climate and Energy of Slovenia launched a public call for cofunding the construction or restructuring of district heating and cooling systems using renewable energy sources. The grants, for companies and cooperatives, are from the European Union’s cohesion support mechanisms. The introduction of renewables-based district heating and cooling systems reduces pollution, […]
The European Commission has proposed the first support package, of EUR 87.7 million, under the European Union’s Growth Plan for the Western Balkans, to help implement EUR 487.3 million worth of hydropower, solar district heating, and grid modernization projects in Albania, Montenegro, and Serbia. The package was announced following a high-level meeting between European Commissioner […]
Virtual power plants, aggregators, and flexibility are gaining increasing attention, and not just within the energy sector. The growth and volatility of electricity prices have forced many businesses and institutions to install solar panels to cut costs. Virtual power plants – set up by aggregators to provide flexibility services – can generate additional income for […]
The Government of Serbia has secured a EUR 50 million loan to fund a series of air quality projects across several cities. The funds will primarily go towards replacing coal- and fuel oil-fired boiler rooms in six cities. For years, air pollution has been one of the biggest environmental issues in Serbia. Minister of Environmental […]
Serbia plans to sign an agreement by the end of the year on introducing renewable sources in district heating plants, according to the Ministry of Mining and Energy. Minister of Mining and Energy Dubravka Đedović Handanović met with Ambassador of Germany Anke Konrad and Director of Germany’s KfW Development Bank for Southeast Europe and Turkey Klaus […]
According to Ember’s new figures, renewable energy sources met almost three quarters of last year’s increase in the world’s electricity demand. Together with nuclear energy, they would have covered almost the entire jump if it wasn’t for the share attributed to the annual increase in temperatures. Looking at it the other way around, the need […]
Helsinki’s municipal energy company Helen closed its last coal facility. Together with the country’s remaining plants that use the solid fossil fuel, Salmisaari accounted for just 0.8% of the electricity mix in 2024. The Government of Finland earlier set May 1, 2029, as the coal exit date. Two years ago, the Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor […]
Author: Stevan Vujasinović The population in rural areas in the municipalities of Priboj, Čajetina and Arilje in Serbia have been heavily affected for years with frequent and prolonged interruptions in electricity supply. The interruptions not only disturb everyday life but they also substantially hinder the development of family businesses, especially in tourism and agriculture. However, […]
Author: Thomas Nowak, EUSEW’s digital ambassador Efficient heating and cooling is essential, yet much thermal energy goes to waste. What if we could avoid this thermal pollution and instead establish a circular energy economy in urban areas by recovering and recycling waste heat? Thermal networks as heat collectors and transport means, heat pumps as energy […]