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| Hydro Planning and Development Aided by Supercomputer in Slovania | Advancing development of hydropower as a green alternative to traditional energy sources, world-renowned hydro-energy research organisation Turboinštitut has ordered the most powerful supercomputer in South East Europe. | |
| Eastern European Wind Developments Pursued | Meinl International Power Ltd. (MIP) is pursuing numerous wind farm projects in Eastern and South Eastern Europe. Projects are currently being developed and/or examined in the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, Poland and Croatia. | |
| 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. | |
| Program Encourages Renewable Energy and Entrepreneurship | The European Commission's Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) was presented Wednesday in Skopje.
Macedonian Economy Minister Vera Rafajlovska and the EU Ambassador Erwan Fouere made introductory address at today's presentation of the CIP. The programme will run from 2007 to 2013.
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| Slovakia Ready for Biofuels | A pledge to raise the share of biofuels on the petrol and diesel market to 2 percent, to which Slovakia is committed by EU regulations, was met by the country as early as the first quarter of 2007. | |
| Horna Streda Upgrade Contract in Slovakia Won | Czech firm CKD Blansko has won the tender competition for general repair works at the Horna Streda hydropower plant in Slovakia. | |
| 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. | |
| Resort in Slovakia Uses Geothermal for Power and Relaxation | AquaCity, claimed to be the world’s most environmentally friendly resort, using geothermal water to provide a third of its electricity supply and heating for the two hotels, conference centre, spa and sauna centre and 9 swimming pools. | |
| Armenia and Slovak Republic Announce Small Hydro Plans | “We are planing to boost economic relations. Our businessmen are ready to invest $150 thousand in Armenia’s economy for construction of minor hydroelectric plants,” said Olga Algaerova, the State Secretary, first Vice Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic.
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| Slovenia Builds Solar Power Plant on the Highway | As Ljubljana newspaper Delo reported on May 14, the noise isolating fence that will be built on the fast road next to the border crossing Vrtojba, 640 metres long and two and a half metres high, will have solar cells, and the power of the solar power plant, plugged into an electric network, will be 80 kw. | |
| Slovak Wind Power Discussed | Some conditions are in place for more wind power development in Slovakia. | |
| Slovakian Coal Plant May be Converted to Geothermal | Icelandic energy company Enex plans to buy the leading stake in a Soviet-era coal-powered power plant in Kosice, Slovakia’s second biggest city, and will help transform it into a geothermal plant. | |
| EU Posts Data on Renewables for Each Member Country | The European Union has released fact sheets on the level of renewable energy in its 27 member countries. | |
| Slovakia Targets 12 Percent Renewable Energy Production by 2020 | Slovakia aims to boost the amount of energy produced from renewable sources to around 12 percent. | |
| Slovakia Plans to Renew Talks on Danube Dam with Austria | Wolfstahl is considered as the location for a 78 MW hydropower plant for completion before 2015. -Slovak Spectator | |