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Grant Contracts for Biomass Development Awarded | Hungary-Slovakia-Romania-Ukraine ENPI CBC Programme 2007-13 has announced that the first three Grant Contracts within the ENPI CBC were signed on 14th July 2010 in Chust, Ukraine. | |
| Mage Solar Establishes Sales Force In Slovakia | Ravensburg, Germany-based Mage Solar GmbH, part of the globally operating MAGE GROUP, has established a sales force in Slovakia. The company offers its complete product portfolio, including modules, mounting systems and branded inverters. Previously, Mage Solar supported the Slovakian market from the Czech Republic, where the company established a subsidiary in 2009. | |
| Report: CEE next Big Market for Renewable Energy | “As CEE countries take on the challenge of developing their indigenous energy sources, companies are currently experiencing first-mover advantages that could place them ahead of the curve,” Frost & Sullivan says. | |
| E.ON Opens Biomass Plants in Slovakia | German utility E.ON said on Monday it has switched on two new biomass power plants in Slovakia and expects another two more to come online in the coming months. | |
| EBRD Offers €90M Slovakian Sustainable Energy Finance Facility | The Bank’s SLOVSEFF was launched in 2007, when the EBRD provided €60 million to encourage Slovak enterprises and housing associations to make better use of energy resources. The funds were distributed via four local partner banks Slovenska Sporitelna (Erste Bank Group), VUB Banka (Intesa Sanpaolo Group), Tatra Banka (Raiffeisen International) and Dexia Banka Slovensko.
The new €90 million will be on-lent to the four participating banks as well as to new partner institutions in Slovakia. The proceeds of the EBRD funds will be used to finance efficiency and renewable energy projects implemented in the industrial and residential sectors. | |
| Slovakian Geothermal Resource Reviewed by Panax | In Slovakia results of the review of the historical information database of the Mezozoic carbonates within the East Slovakian Basin, where Panax can potentially operate, included flow rates of up to 120l/sec at a temperature of 130C at 2,252 metres. | |
| Slovakian Shipyard Builds Ships With "Skysails" for Fuel Savings | The “Theseus” last year became the world’s first cargo ship to be powered with high altitude kite-like sails tethered on lines 100 metres in the air.
SkySails cannot power a ship unaided, but it can reduce the amount of gas needed by up to 80 percent without any additional crew or technology.
The “Theseus” is one of three new Rhine class ships being built for Wessels at the Komarno shipyard in Slovakia. | |
| 670 MW of Wind Planned in Slovakia | Slovak Wind Power Association plan to build approximately 290 wind power units in Slovakia with 670 megawatts. Wind Capacity in 2009 is only 3 megawatts. | |
| EBRD Plans Ukrainian Direct Lending for Renewables | The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is intending to establish a EUR 50 million Ukraine Renewable Energy Direct Lending Facility. Ukrainian News learned this from a statement by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the wording of which was made available to the agency. | |
| Biomass Co-firing Begins at Slovakian Plant | Slovenske Elektrarne (SE), a unit of Italy's utility Enel (ENEI.MI), said on Friday it had started the biomass co-combustion generation in its Vojany power plant, a step aimed at cutting carbon emissions. SE said it would initially use biomass for 4 percent of fuel needed to run the power plant and that it was considering bumping up that amount to 20 percent in the near future. | |
| Slovakian Wind Investment Reported | The company Wind Energie, s.r.o. has announced its intention to build a wind park in the north of Slovakia, near the town of Tvrdošín. | |
| Greenergy Planning Investments in Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Romania. | Greenergy, a company that operates small co-generation power plants, is spending €20 million on acquisitions and developments this year, according to CEO József Spilkó as told to MTI-Econews and reported in the Budapest Business Journal.
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| CEZ Eyes Renewable Options in Central and Eastern Europe | PRAGUE, Sep 1 (Reuters) - Czech power group CEZ is eyeing smaller renewable energy projects in central and eastern Europe to make up for a lack of large-scale acquisition opportunities, CEZ's head of acquisitions Vladimir Schmalz said. | |
| New Study Explores Wind Potential for Central and Eastern Europe |
The following study covers the development and dynamics of the wind energy industry in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Political will and administrative procedures are dramatically changing as the need for energy security, and the ambitious European Union renewable energy targets drive the wind energy market in the CEE region. Nevertheless, sluggish policy developments, effects of the global financial crisis, in addition to supply bottlenecks and grid connection problems slow down the momentum, thereby exposing the markets largest shortfalls, and highest potential. Wind energy boasts of increased attention in the region also due to looming power crises forecasted in many largest CEE countries, such as Turkey and Poland.
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| Biggest Plan for Solar in Slovakia Approved by Poltár Town Council | A large solar power plant could emerge within the area of the town of Poltár as the Emel Energy company has announced it intends to build it in the Jelšoviny locality on the area of 21 hectares. This would be the biggest solar power plant in Slovakia, the TASR newswire reported. | |