Necessary investments in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s electricity distribution grids by 2030 amount to BAM 1.4 billion (EUR 716 million), according to Zijad Bajramović, chairman of the Bosnia and Herzegovina committee of the International Council on Large Electric Systems (CIGRE). The growing installation of power plants utilizing renewable energy sources is creating congestion in transmission and […]
In an accelerating investment wave, companies in Romania are combining BESS with solar power, hydropower and wind power, or building standalone energy storage facilities. The group includes R.Power, Hidroelectrica, Engie and more big names. Recent updates about investments in battery energy storage systems (BESS) in Romania indicate the technology is becoming another pillar of the […]
Romanian state-owned hydropower plant operator Hidroelectrica, the largest electricity producer in the country, is looking to take over a 250 MW wind farm project under development and a total of about 270 MW of solar projects. Hidroelectrica’s plan is to acquire the companies that own the rights, permits, land, and other assets related to the […]
An almost complete hydropower project that was launched in the late 1980s in Romania is stuck again as a court in Cluj suspended a government’s decree that allowed clearing 31 hectares of forest. Hidroelectrica’s endeavor on the Răstolița river is for 35.2 MW. What was labeled by the Romanian media as the last big investment […]
Romanian state-owned hydropower plant operator Hidroelectrica picked the contractor for a 10 MW floating solar power plant, its first, on the reservoir of the Ipotești hydroelectric plant. Hidroelectrica awarded the contract for the construction of the Proiect Pilot Nufărul floating photovoltaic system. The pilot project could open the way for the installation of a group […]
Romanian state-owned hydropower plant operator Hidroelectrica signed a deal with Servelect and subcontractor Electroplus, which need to install solar panels on the roofs of 20 hydroelectric plants. They are on the middle and downstream parts of the Olt river. Combining hydropower with photovoltaics including floating solar power plants is becoming popular. The two sources are […]
Minister of Energy of Romania Sebastian Burduja and Minister of Energy of Bulgaria Zhecho Stankov both met with United States Secretary of Energy Chris Wright and discussed bilateral cooperation in projects in their countries including for pumped storage hydropower plants and nuclear power plants. Burduja said studies would be conducted with American support for a […]
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 […]