Captured waste heat from local industry in southern Poland can compete with fossil fuel plants to supply affordable heating for local homes through district heating...
Tag - Coal
Renewable power is increasingly cheaper than any new electricity capacity based on fossil fuels, claims a new report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)...
Poland appears to have built its last coal-fired power plant. Late on May 19, two state-run Polish utility companies, Enea and Energa, said that they were ending their...
North Macedonia’s government has approved a national energy strategy that makes it the first country in the Western Balkans to consider a coal phase-out before...
Tackling climate-related energy challenges in Bulgaria looks like the well-known story of seeing your dentist – the longer you put off going, the more painful and...
Our weekly digest of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them...
The European Commission’s Just Transition Mechanism, the first part of a decade-long Green Deal funding package, estimated to be worth upwards of one trillion...
As the transition to low-emission sources will cost the Czech Republic 25 billion euros, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš is calling for more ambitious financial assistance...
The European Commission is referring Poland to the Court of Justice for allowing energy intensive businesses to be exempted from excise duty on coal and gas. Common EU...
A court in Bucharest has blocked the expansion of the Roșia coal mine in Gorj, the largest in Romania. In 2016, Complexul Energetic Oltenia, the largest energy company...
Hungary’s gas storage facilities are full for the first time in history, assuring both domestic supplies ahead of the winter season and profits from renting out storage...
Montenegro has scrapped plans to add a 254 MW unit at the Pljevlja coal-fired power plant, the country’s government has announced. Ljubo Knezevic, energy advisor...
