Electricity
EBRD and Green Energy Special Fund providing €11 million joint loan to city of Bacau to modernize street lighting
The population of Bacau will benefit from a €11 million loan provided by the EBRD and the Green Energy Special…
Ringhel enters the Serbian market with IT solutions for power and natural gas suppliers
Ringhel, the leading provider of IT solutions and services dedicated to the Romanian power and gas markets, recently concluded two…
Bulgaria may launch a tender for the 10 bln. euro Belene nuclear plant
Bulgaria may launch a tender to choose a strategic investor for its Belene nuclear power project by the end of…
BASF and Nornickel join forces to supply battery materials market
BASF has selected Harjavalta, Finland, as the first location for battery materials production serving the European automotive market. The plant…
Onshore wind is cheapest form of renewable energy
The UK government’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has published projections on costs for projects starting in…
Power sector ”concerned” about new EU data privacy rules
A proposed ePrivacy regulation currently under discussion at EU level would hurt new business models in the clean energy sector,…
EU negotiators agree for dynamic pricing of electricity
Energy companies with more than 200,000 clients will be obliged to provide households with at least one offer comprising dynamic…
Hidroelectrica will work with Verbund for energy dispatching, the staff-free operation of the power plants
Hidroelectrica and VERBUND Hydro Power GmbH have jointly signed a memorandum of cooperation by which the two companies express their…
ESCOROM proposes the conversion of coal-fired power plants as the central element of the national energy strategy
The ESCOROM Association of Energy Services Companies in Romania launched in public debate a position paper proposing that the national…
Romanians have bought twice as many ecological cars at 9M
About 3,000 new green cars were sold in Romania in first nine months of the year, almost double (99.83%) compared…
Multiple technologies are vying to house temporary surpluses of solar and wind power
A mind-boggling array of energy storage technologies—including batteries the size of an Ikea furniture store and tanks of salt hydrates…
Shell bets on shale for flexibility in energy transition
Growing oil and gas production from shale fields will act as a “balance” for deepwater projects, the new head of…
Google is searching for a way to be zero emissions all the time
Our time to move away from dirty energy to green sources is limited. Federal governments can’t be relied upon to push…
Bucharest Forum: Energy is a crucial part of regional security
Career diplomats, military and analysts, as well as experts from the various fields of activity (energy, biotech, IT) discussed in…