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| Hydro Considered in Kosovo | Ministers Slobodan Samardžić and Aleksandar Popović visited a number of places in Kosovo - Ranilug, Vrbovac, Štrpce and Kosovska Mitrovica.
They announced that serious talks were in progress over the construction of a mini hydro-electric station in the Štrpce region that would produce some 10 million kilowatt hours per year.
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| Biorefinery Planned in Serbia | International bio-technology company Altech has presented a project for building a biorefinery in Vojvodina. At a meeting with the President of the Vojvodina Executive Committee and Environment Minister Saša Dragin, Laience said that 70 percent of the bioethanol would be produced from corn and 30 percent from cellulose. | |
| Report From Biofuel Conference Held in Bulgaria | In the second of a series of workshops for biofuel end-users, the Biofuel Cities European Partnership brought together 35 stakeholders from Central and Eastern Europe in Sofia, Bulgaria in December 2007. On the agenda was a discussion of biofuels for transport and a reflection on the challenges facing biofuel end-users in the region, such as overly bureaucratic procedures, lack of institutional support and security of feedstock supply. | |
| Phaunos Timber to Build Wood Pellet Processing Facility in Serbia | Phaunos Timber Fund recently announced its plans to build a wood pellet processing facility in southern Serbia. The plant will use waste wood fibre to create high density wood pellets.
Phaunos will invest US$9 million to build the first of several wood pellet plants that will provide an entry to Eastern Europe for Phaunos. | |
| Montenegro-Italian Undersea Power Link Could Move Hydropower | Montenegro, a thickly forested mountainous country with dozens of rivers, currently uses only 27 percent of its water resources in generating electricity. But with proper investment, the country could be a potential electricity exporter in the future, Kovacevic added.
Several tenders were considered for increasing production capacities, including for hydro power plants on river Moraca and on the Bay of Kotor, as well as for a second block of the thermal power plant in the northern town of Pljevlja.
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| Drinking Water in Podgorica, Montenegro Boiled Using Slovak Solar Collectors | A solar-powered system for boiling drinking water has been officially handed over to the Clinical Centre in Podgorica in Montenegro by THERMO|SOLAR Ziar after one year of a trial operation. | |
| Montenegro Plans Hydro Development | The Montenegrin government has unveiled a strategy aimed at reducing the country's dependence on energy imports and make fuller use of hydropower potential. The authorities call for investing 1.8 billion euros in a variety of projects between now and 2025.
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| Hydro Rehab Planned at Piva Plant in Montenegro | Elektroprivreda Crne Gore AD (EPCG) is inviting consultants to assist in the rehabilitation of the Piva hydroelectric plant in the North West of Montenegro. Co-financing from KfW within the scope of German Financial Cooperation is currently under negotiation. | |
| First Bio-Diesel Plant in Serbia Opens | Serbian Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management Slobodan Milosavljevic attended the opening of the first €20 million bio-diesel plant in Serbia Victoria Oil in late June. | |
| Serbian and Republic of Srpska to Build Hydroelectric Plant | The Serbian and Republic of Srpska (RS) Energy Ministries have announced the joint construction of a hydroelectric plant. | |
| Ethanol Builder Fagen Looks to Croatia and Serbia for Projects | High corn prices in the US are creating interest in Croatia and Serbia for more ethanol production. | |
| Serbian Statements on Renewable Energy | Serbian Minister of Energy and Mining Aleksandar Popovic said today at a UNESCO conference held in Paris that Serbia will contribute to global efforts for harmonising actions on all levels with the aim to securing adequate energy supply for economic development while preserving the environment. According to Popovic, improvement of sustainable energy development holds a very important place in Serbia’s development policy, and it will be realised above all through increased usage of renewable energy sources.
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| Debt Agreement Leads to Hydro Work | An agreement over debts between Serbia and the former Soviet Union will lead to US$ 100.5M to be spent revitalizing a hydro power plant in Derdap, Serbia. | |
| Serbia Plans New Hydro | Serbia is planning to construct four small hydroelectric power plants with a combined generating capacity of 4.3 MW in the next two years. | |
| Biomass Co-firing in Europe - Conference | On behalf of the Integrated European Network for Biomass Co-firing (NETBIOCOF), you are invited to join us at the International Conference in Biomass Co-firing in Europe. This event will be held on July 2-4, 2007 in Budapest, Hungary.
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