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5 days ago | 
balkangreenenergynews.com | Igor Todorović
Four participants registered last month at the Independent Bulgarian Energy Exchange’s guarantees of origin platform, creating a national market. Separately, IBEX is preparing to roll out a 15-minute market time unit in the Single Day-Ahead Coupling on June 11 with other European nominated electricity market operators.
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5 days ago | 
balkangreenenergynews.com | Igor Todorović
Investors in offshore wind farms, especially European ones, are facing increasing losses – Ørsted decided to halt its Hornsea 4 project in the United Kingdom, while the United States stopped the construction of Equinor’s Empire Wind 1 facility.
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6 days ago | 
balkangreenenergynews.com | Igor Todorović
Serbian state-owned power utility Elektroprivreda Srbije will offtake electricity from future wind parks Alibunar 1 and Alibunar 2, of 168 MW in combined capacity. EPS’s Chief Executive Officer Dušan Živković and Project Director of WV-International in Serbia Lazar Lazendić signed today the power purchase agreements (PPAs) and the contracts for difference (CfD) and balancing responsibility.
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6 days ago | 
balkangreenenergynews.com | Igor Todorović
Električnu energiju iz budućih vetroparkova Alibunar 1 i Alibunar 2, ukupne snage 168 megavata, preuzimaće Elektroprivreda Srbije, a danas su ugovore o tržišnoj premiji i o otkupu električne energije i preuzimanju balansne odgovornosti potpisali generalni direktor EPS-a Dušan Živković i direktor projekata kompanije WV-International u Srbiji Lazar Lazendić.
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6 days ago | 
balkangreenenergynews.com | Igor Todorović
New battery storage installations last year in Europe came in at an all-time high 21.9 GWh in capacity, though the leap wasn’t as impressive as in the previous years. The total reached 61.1 GWh. “If Europe has already entered the solar age, the battery storage age is just beginning,” said Walburga Hemetsberger, CEO of SolarPower Europe, which issued the annual report.
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1 week ago | 
balkangreenenergynews.com | Igor Todorović
The European Commission set out a plan to phase out by the end of 2027 the purchases of Russian natural gas, including in the form of LNG, and oil. The package includes proposals aiming to replace Russian nuclear fuel and materials as well. The European Union will end its dependency on Russian energy by stopping the import of Russian gas and oil and phasing out Russian nuclear energy, while ensuring stable energy supplies and prices, the European Commission said.
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1 week ago | 
balkangreenenergynews.com | Igor Todorović
Final preparations are underway for the third Belgrade Energy Forum, BEF 2025. Energy Community Secretariat Director Artur Lorkowski and Serbian Minister of Mining and Energy Dubravka Đedović Handanović will open the event. One of the key speakers is Director Christian Zinglersen of the EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER).
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1 week ago | 
balkangreenenergynews.com | Igor Todorović
The world added 597 GW of photovoltaic capacity last year, achieving an astounding 36% rate of growth, SolarPower Europe found. China accounted for 55.1% of all new installations. Turkey is in the global top ten with its 1.42% annual share, while Greece is sixth in the world in the category of solar capacity per person. SolarPower Europe calculated a much higher global total, 2.2 TW, for photovoltaic facilities at the end of 2024, than the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) – 1.87 TW.
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1 week ago | 
balkangreenenergynews.com | Igor Todorović
Kosovo Energy Corp. (KEK) began the reconstruction and modernization of one of the two units in its Kosovo B coal power plant. The works are part of a EUR 56.5 million project for the entire facility. Kosovo* relies almost entirely on lignite in domestic electricity production, with a 92% share, the highest in the world. The failure of a gas pipeline project in 2021 and the sluggish development of wind and solar power projects have prompted the reconstruction of both old coal plants.
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1 week ago | 
balkangreenenergynews.com | Igor Todorović
Raspisan je javni poziv za jedinice lokalne samouprave u Srbiji za ovogodišnje učešće u projektu subvencionisanja mera energetske efikasnosti u domaćinstvima. Ministarstvo rudarstva i energetike očekuje da će gradovi i opštine na leto početi da raspisuju javne pozive za građane. Danas je raspisan javni poziv za 2025. za jedinice lokalne samouprave koje žele da učestvuju u projektu subvencionisanja mera energetske efikasnosti u domaćinstvima.