Energy Country Profiles

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) granted a €13.3m financing package to Eco-Optima, an Ukrainian-Italian joint venture company, which will build a new 12.5 MW wind farm in Staryy Sambir region of western...

ELEM has signed a deal with a consortium of Greek builder Terna and German engineering firm Siemens to build the Balkan country's first wind farm.

Having received more than 50 expressions of interest for offshore wind farms in the Polish Baltic Sea, the government has given the green light to five projects totalling 4.5 GW of capacity – including the three awarded to PGE.

Schneider Electric has secured an EPC contract for the construction, network connection and operation of two solar power plants in Bulgaria. The two solar plants will be at Letnitsa and Vratsa.

Croatia: Electricity - Renewables - Wind - Project. Acciona has commenced construction of the 30 MW Jelinak wind park, the firm's first wind power project in Croatia. The project is expected to come online by the end of 2012....

Czech utility CEZ will have all the 600 MW wind installed capacities in Fantanele and Cogealac parks (Dobrogea area) operational by the end of 2012, according to Adrian Borotea, corporate affairs director at CEZ...

Romania is up 4 positions to 10th place on wind attractiveness in the latest Country Attractiveness Indices report issued by Ernst & Young consultancy. In solar, the country moved up 2 positions to 23rd. Overall, the country...

Gas supplier GDF Suez will make significant investments in Romania, in the wind and gas sectors, worth over EUR 100 million, according to Eric Stab, executive president of GDF Suez in Romania, quoted by Bloomberg.

“Biomass Energy“ is a project portfolio to harness the energy lost during the decay of biological waste products and to turn it into electricity and heat energy. According to experts the total market value of bioenergy projects...

Issues concerning the use of biomass energy are pressing and urgent due to a high replacement potential of traditional energy by biomass energy: On average about 15% of the territory in Ukraine is covered by forests. It is...

Increasing the renewable energy share to at least 20% by 2020 in the EU overall energy consumption is an important precondition for a more sustainable and competitive Europe. Reaching this goal relies on the commitment of Member...

The renewable arm of Italian utility Enel plans to start operations on another 180MW of wind installed capacities in Romania by the end of 2012, according to Francesco Lazzeri, general manager of Enel Green Power Romania

Romania’s hydro power generator Hidroelectrica included in this year’s budget investments of EUR 358 million, up 1 percent from 2011, according to Agerpres newswire.

Romania is up 4 positions to 10th place on wind attractiveness in the latest Country Attractiveness Indices report issued by Ernst & Young consultancy. In solar, the country moved up 2 positions to 23rd. Overall, the country...

TIS Eco Ltd (Kyiv region) has obtained the license to conduct business of combined heat and electric power production for the period of 20 years. The corresponding decision was adopted at the open meeting of National Energy...

Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy Štefan Füle and Commissioner for Energy Günther Oettinger met with Turkish Minister for EU Affairs and Chief Negotiator Egemen Bagis and Energy Minister Taner Yildiz...

UNIDO and the Austrian Energy Agency (AEA) cooperate in a new project aiming at reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the Moldovan industry by developing and improving technologies on energy efficiency, energy management,...

The EBRD achieved a record level of sustainable energy investments in 2011, in a continuing response to the need for its region to increase energy efficiency and move towards a low-carbon growth model.

The EBRD will provide up to 3 billion roubles (€75 million) to modernise and increase the energy efficiency of district heating systems in a permafrost area of Far East Russia where the heating season lasts 10 months a year and...

Seven best sustainable energy projects under the Moldovan Sustainable Energy Financing Facility (MoSEFF) were honoured during the “EU-EBRD Sustainable Excellence Awards 2012” ceremony, held at the Leogrand Hotel in Chisinau on...