Green Ideals, Dirty Energy: The EU-backed Renewables Drive That Went Wrong

15 December 2020  | Balkan Insight

BIRN reveals how a campaign to build renewable energy plants, supported by the EU, siphoned away subsidies and wrecked pristine waterways in Serbia and beyond.

BANKWATCH: AS ROMANIA ABANDONS NEW COAL PROJECT, A LARGER GAS THREAT LOOMS

14 December 2020  | Energetika

Source: BANKWATCH: AS ROMANIA ABANDONS NEW COAL PROJECT, A LARGER GAS THREAT LOOMS

Pokrenuta Platforma za podršku energetskoj tranziciji u regionima uglja na Zapadnom Balkanu i u Ukrajini

11 December 2020  | Balkan Green Energy News

Platforma za podršku energetskoj tranziciji u regionima uglja na Zapadnom Balkanu i u Ukrajini zvanično je započela sa radom. Cilj platforme je da pomogne ovim zemljama da prestanu da koriste ugalj u proizvodnji energije.

EBRD chief defends lending strategy in autocratic countries

7 December 2020  | Financial Times

Renaud-Basso says private-sector financing bolsters civil society against repressive regimes.

Geothermal Development in Kenya: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

4 December 2020  | The Elephant

Geothermal development in Kenya is widely welcomed as green, clean and good for the country. But behind the glowing publicity is a hidden story of forced relocation, human rights abuses, land loss, shattered lives, joblessness, deepening poverty, and serious negative impacts on the health of local people and their livestock.

CEPS signs EUR-189m loan for Czech power network upgrades

3 December 2020  | Renewables Now

Czech transmission system operator CEPS AS has signed a CZK-5-billion (USD 230m/EUR 189m) loan to bolster the electricity transmission infrastructure in the Czech Republic, which in turn will facilitate the integration of renewables.