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| Ibarske Elektrane Looks to Ibar River for Hydropower | EPS has signed an agreement with Italian company SECI Energia for founding a joint venture called Ibarske Elektrane. In the coming years, they will be building 10 hydroelectric plants along the Ibar River, worth a total of EUR 278mn. | |
| IFC to Invest €25M in Green for Growth Fund Southeast Europe | IFC, a member of the World Bank Group , will invest up to €25 million in the Green for Growth Fund Southeast Europe to stimulate financing of sustainable energy projects within the region. The fund will have a significant developmental impact in promoting energy efficiency and renewable energy and expanding lending to households, small and medium enterprises, renewable energy projects, energy service companies, and municipalities. Its investments initially are targeted to Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Turkey. | |
| Telenor Station Uses Solar, Wind for Power in Serbia | Telenor has opened its first base station in Serbia which combines solar and wind energy to power the network, at site Pločica in Kovin municipality. | |
| US Firm Plans $135M Bioethanol Plant in Serbia | The US firm Farmers' Ethanol plans to invest USD135 million into the construction of an eco fuel - bioethanol factory in Smederevo, the company representatives announced, Betanews reported. | |
| Kosovo and Bulgaria Sign Energy Agreement | istry of Energy and Mining of the Republic of Kosovo and the Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism of the Republic of Bulgaria signed in Sofia an agreement for cooperation and intensification of bilateral relations in the energy sector, including renewable energy. | |
| Five Percent of Serbian Electricity From WTE - Minister | Serbia could produce three to five percent of its electric and heat energy from waste, Minister for Mining and Energy Petar Škundrić says. | |
| Sustainable Forest Management Providing Renewable Energy, Sustainable Construction and Bio-based Products' (ROKFOR) Cluster | Europe's research driven clusters in sustainable forest management and wood based industries got new co-operation opportunities within the ROKFOR project which started 23 February 2010.
This cooperative action project ‘Sustainable Forest Management Providing Renewable Energy, Sustainable Construction and Bio-based Products' (ROKFOR) will join forces in which five European regions in order to create both individual and regional research agendas and action plans in the fields of renewable energy, bio-based products and sustainable construction.
The regions involved are Baden-Württemberg in Germany, Aquitaine in France, Basque country in Spain, Catalonia in Spain, North Karelia in Finland, as well as Croatia and Serbia. The three-year project is based on each region's current strengths in the forest sector. The project also aims to strengthen and promote competitiveness within the forest sectors without jeopardizing sustainability. | |
| Reservoir Granted Three More Geothermal Exploration Permits in Serbia | Reservoir Capital Corp. (REO.V: News ) said its wholly-owned subsidiary, Southern European Exploration D.o.o. or "SEE", was granted 3 more licenses (Kupusina, Adorijan and Vrbica) to explore for geothermal energy in the Vojvodina Region of northern Serbia. The company added that these license areas were selected based on the results of historical oil and gas and geothermal exploration into hot water aquifers of the Pannonian Basin. | |
| Serbian Hydropower Feasibility Study Begins | Reservoir Capital Corp. of Canada has opened a branch in the Serbian town of Prijepolje, and will conduct a feasibility study for construction of two hydropower plants on the Lim river in the Balkan country's southwest. | |
| Interview Leader in Belgrade Biomass District Heating Plants | Beogradske elektrane (District Heating Plants) are leading the way to replace coal with biomass in order to ensure that heating for Belgrade’s citizens is cleaner, more energy efficient, and economically sensible.
The USAID Serbia Competitiveness Project is partnering with Beogradske elektrane to raise awareness of the benefits of using biomass.
EMportal sat down with Radmilo Savić, Executive manager of Beogradske elektrane, to discuss his views on the trends and logic behind this innovative approach. | |
| Serbian Geothermal Exploratory Permit Issued | Reservoir Capital Corp. has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Southern European Exploration d.o.o. ("SEE") has been granted an exploration permit for geothermal energy at Vranjska Banja in southern Serbia | |
| Serbia/Italy Plan Joint Wind/Hydro Development | Serbia's Ministry of Energy announced Wednesday that according to an agreement with the Italian government, Italy would finance the construction of hydroelectric power plants and wind generators in Serbia, which would later be paid for by exporting all of the power they would produce to Italy, at a price four to five times higher than that in Serbia. | |
| Southeast Europe Energy Efficiency Fund Created | A new fund has been set to support energy efficiency and renewable energy projects and reduce carbon emissions in the Balkans and Turkey.
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| Republika Srpska and Serbia Seek Partner for Hydro Plants | Republika Srpska announced yesterday a call for tenders to select a strategic partner for building hydro power stations on the Drina. | |
| RWE Considers Hydro in Serbia | The first phase of the joint effort involves the construction of a hydroelectric plant that could generate as much as 3,000 megawatts of electricity. Potential sites for the plant include locations on the Danube, Morava and Drina Rivers. | |