Astronergy allocated USD 700 million for its second solar module factory in Turkey. It aims to start manufacturing photovoltaic wafers and cells in Balıkesir in the first phase. The company is part of Chint Group, headquartered in China. Turkey’s ind...
Rolls-Royce SMR and Czech utility ČEZ have signed an early works agreement. It paves the way for site-specific work on their small modular reactor project at the Temelín nuclear power plant. British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Czech Prime Min...
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 ta...
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,...
The Republic of Serbia and Germany’s KfW Development Bank signed a loan agreement on July 18 for EUR 135 million for the second phase of the credit program Green Transition Development Policy Operation (DPO II). The signatures underscore the joint ac...
The ninth Energy Community Summer School has kicked off in Montenegro, gathering 40 participants from 28 countries. On July 19, forty young professionals and researchers from 28 countries convened at the Faculty of Maritime Studies in Kotor, Monteneg...
Statkraft has sold its Croatian platform to Resalta, according to the two companies. The transaction, which includes the renewable energy project pipeline and the transfer of employees, was signed and closed in July. Norway-based Statkraft has decide...
The largest solar power plant in Slovenia has only 7.1 MW in peak capacity and a 5 MW grid connection. The facility in the country’s southwest, on the border with Italy, has begun regular operation, according to its developer Moja elektrarna. Sloveni...
The number of power purchase agreements (PPAs) for renewables in Europe fell by 31% and the volume tumbled 26% in the first half of the year from the levels in the same period of 2024, Pexapark found. Germany and France registered sharp declines in t...
US-based bank Citi and Bulgaria have established a partnership to secure funding for the construction of units 7 and 8 at the existing 2,000 MW Kozloduy nuclear power plant. Bulgaria’s Ministry of Energy said minister Zhecho Stankov and his delegatio...
Power utility Elektroprivreda Bosne i Hercegovine aborted a waste co-incineration test at its Tuzla coal power plant. It halted the pilot project upon a request from the city authorities. Elektroprivreda BiH (EPBiH) announced it would comply with the...
The Energy Community Ministerial Council held its annual informal meeting in Athens, where the organization was founded twenty years ago. No contracting party is expected to meet the criteria for exemption from the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism...
Hungarian state-owned energy company MVM has become the majority owner of Serbia-based firms Energotehnika – Južna Bačka from Novi Sad and Elektromontaža from Kraljevo. Energotehnika – Južna Bačka and Elektromontaža, which were privately owned, provi...
Global investment firm Brookfield and tech giant Google signed an agreement to deliver up to 3,000 MW of carbon-free hydropower capacity in the United States. Brookfield said the Hydro Framework Agreement (HFA) is the first of its kind and “the world...
Within the European Union’s proposed budget for the period from 2028 to 2034, the EUR 409 billion European Competitiveness Fund is for investments in strategic technologies, including for the clean transition and decarbonization. The new Connecting E...