September 2017 - ESC Adriatic

Sep292017 by ESC AdriaticNo Comments

EU strength solidarity in energy field with Moldova and Ukraine, Finchannel, 29th September 2017

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EU strengthening solidarity in energy field with Moldova and Ukraine, Finchannel, 29th September 2017 The FINANCIAL - EU Member States, members of the Commission Initiative on Central and South-Eastern European Energy Connectivity (CESEC), and Energy Community Contracting Parties agreed on 28 September to reinforce regional cooperation in addressing energy challenges, as part of a special meeting in Bucharest, Romania. The meeting brought together nine EU Member States (Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia) and eight Energy Community Contracting Parties (FYROM, Serbia, Ukraine, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, Moldova). The participants agreed on a joint approach to electricity markets, energy efficiency and renewable development. They also established a list of priority projects to build an interconnected regional electricity market, as well as actions to boost renewables and…

Sep262017 by ESC AdriaticNo Comments

KESH opens bids of purchasing electricity for the 1-31 October 2017, Kesh, 26 Sept. 2017

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KESH opens bids for purchasing electricity for the period 1-31 October 2017, Kesh, 26 September 2017 The Albanian Power Corporation has opened a bid for the buy of electricity for the period 01-31 October 2017. Referring to the official offer request, KESH will buy 134,100 megawatts of energy. The interested companies have time to present their bids until 28 September 2017. The preferred criterion will be the lowest price, referring to the bidding offer published on KESH’s website. Because of the drought that has affected the country, production capacities in the main hydropower plants in the country have been significantly reduced. Disclaimer: The consultation of this article can be made through its original source. The authorship and the opinion expressed pertain to their authors. While all the effort are made…

Sep242017 by ESC AdriaticNo Comments

Drought prompted a decline by ALL 2.4 bln in KESH revenues, SCAN, 22 September 2017

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Drought prompted a decline by ALL 2.4 bln in KESH revenues, SCAN, 22 September 2017 The lack of rainfall has worsened the financial situation of the Albanian Power Corporation KESH, and according to the data from this company, which TV SCAN has seen, it results that this was reflected in the decline of revenues by ALL 2.4 billion compared with the forecast. KESH’s expenses, on the other hand, increased by ALL 5.1 billion as a result of the company’s arrears to the Electricity Distribution Operator for financial compensation due to the drought and the impossibility of producing the contractual amount of energy. In this context, in September OSHEE managed to provide 94% of the requested quantity, while the remaining 6 percent was received from KESH. For this current year, the…

Sep212017 by ESC AdriaticNo Comments

Albpetrol and two smaller companies licensed for power trading activities, SCAN, 19 Sept. 2017

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Albpetrol and two smaller companies licensed for power trading activities, SCAN, 19 September 2017 The company Albpetrol sh.a. has been awarded a license for trading and supply of electricity with a term of 5 years. The decision was published in the Official Gazette, which also stated that two other companies were licensed for energy trading. Albpetrol filed a request to be licensed in the electricity trading activity in May this year, while the claim was reviewed a month later when it was found that the company met all the requirements foreseen by the ERE in the regulation “On Procedures and Deadlines for Issuing, Modifying, Transferring, Renovating or Removing Licenses in the Electricity Sector”, as follows: Application format; Legal, administrative and property documentation; Financial and fiscal documentation; technical documentation for the…

Sep202017 by ESC AdriaticNo Comments

Powering Europe’s newest nation: Kosovo energy crisis by Klisman Murati, 18 September 2017

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Powering Europe’s newest nation: Investigating the Kosovo energy crisis by Klisman Murati, September 18, 2017 Last month, the tiny Balkan nation of Kosovo narrowly avoided an energy crisis by reaching a deal with two private property owners to access some of the lignite coal it needs to supply its power plants. Several weeks earlier, the state-owned power company, KEK, had come dangerously close to running out of coal after villagers living near the reserves requested more money to resettle. The situation had raised the question of whether Europe’s newest nation might be on the edge of a complete energy collapse, as KEK only possessed two weeks’ worth of reserves. It exposed the extent to which many developing countries still depend on coal as the most cost-efficient resource to meet their energy needs. Furthermore, it…

Sep192017 by ESC AdriaticNo Comments

EBRD Urges WBs to Work on Infrastructure Legal Systems, Marja Novak / Reuters, 5 September 2017

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EBRD Urges Western Balkans to Work on Infrastructure, Legal Systems, by Marja Novak / Reuters, Sept. 5, 2017 BLED, Slovenia (Reuters) - Western Balkan states need to improve 'hard connectivity' such as transport links and strengthen their legal systems as they seek to attract more investment, the vice president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development said on Tuesday. Pierre Heilbronn told Reuters the EBRD would keep investing about 1 billion euros ($1.2 bln) per year in the region that includes Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Kosovo and Albania - all of which aspire to join the European Union. He said countries have to focus on how to "remove obstacles between these markets, which otherwise are quite small for even domestic investors". "Everything which is linked to hard connectivity ...…

Sep182017 by ESC AdriaticNo Comments

International Conference on Biofuels and Bioenergy 2018, Edinburgh, Scotland

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9th Edition of International Conference on Biofuels and Bioenergy 2018, by EuroSciCon, 29-30 March 2018, in Edinburgh, Scotland EuroSciCon Ltd invites participants from all over the world to attend ‘9th Edition of International conference on Biofuels and Bioenergy 2018 ' during March 29-30, 2018 in Edinburgh, Scotland, which includes prompt Keynote Presentations, Oral Talks, Young Research Forum, Technical Workshops, Poster Presentations and Exhibitions. Biofuels and Bioenergy-2018 is the occasion intended for the International experts to encourage the dispersal and utilization of exploration discoveries identified with Biofuels and Bioenergy as substitution powers. It is an investigative stage to meet kindred key chiefs all-around the Biotech associations, Academic Institutions, Industries, and Environment Related Institutes and so on, and making the congress an impeccable stage to share and pick up the information in the field of…

Sep172017 by ESC Adriatic2 Comments

EU plan the fighting energy poverty in the Ionian Adriatic Macro-Region, Region/EU, 17th Sept. 2017

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Call for consultancy services to fighting energy poverty in the Ionian Adriatic Macro-Region, Region/EU, 17th September 2017 EU plan the fighting energy poverty in the Ionian Adriatic Macro-Region. The project’s scope is to provide a blueprint for making building renovations easier as well as increasing the energy share from renewables in the Ionian Adriatic macro-region. Energy efficiency options and a rising share of renewables are to be assessed at a regional level as a matter of structuring an efficient use of possible additional funding and financing in order to promote larger scale energy efficiency programs deployed by national, regional or local authorities. The Project will be organized around a multidisciplinary group of nine (9) companies, Institutes, Organizations and Associations from 8 countries of the Ionian Adriatic macro-region (i.e. Greece, Italy,…

Sep162017 by ESC AdriaticNo Comments

What China’s “Belt and Road Initiative” means for the WBs, by Vanora Bennett / EBRD, 11 Sept. 2017

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What China’s “Belt and Road Initiative” means for the Western Balkans, by Vanora Bennett / EBRD, 11 September 2017 Romania is one of the countries that will benefit from the "Belt and Road Initiative". Independent report for EBRD analyses impact of “Balkan Silk Road” China’s “Belt and Road Initiative”, launched by President Xi Jinping in 2013, is a Eurasian grand strategy that seeks to expand and secure maritime routes and land infrastructure networks from China connecting Asia, Africa and Europe. Also known as ‘One Belt, One Road’, it presents a range of opportunities as well as challenges for the countries involved. The blueprint includes a mosaic of trade deals, energy cooperation and financing agreements taking China westwards. The aim is to establish China’s political economy on a global scale. Seen from a…

Sep152017 by ESC AdriaticNo Comments

Assessment on the Electricity Generation Capacity in Albania

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Legal Assessment on the Electricity Generation Capacity Development in Albania by Dr Lorenc Gordani, 15th September 2017 En.Trading 017 Seminar, Tirana: “Keeping up with SEE power market development”, Hotel Rogner, Tirana, 14 September 2017 Introduction The here presentation on the Electricity Generation Capacity in Albania, bring an synthetic overview, based in daily empirical experience on legal granting rights, about the investments in process and future projections development of the national electricity generation capacity. The main bulled point, offer an answer, to the pressing today’s concerns, such are: “Following the today trends of investments and public policies, when it is predicted to be meet the internal demand in Albania”, “What kind of sources and quantity of offer has to be expected from the country in the upcoming 5, 10, 15 yeas”, etc.…