Energy transition

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Mining and Energy Dubravka Djedovic Handanovic signed on Wednesday a MoU with the French development agency AFD on support for Serbia's energy transition process.

Financial Times Live (FT Live) and Kathimerini are delighted to announce their exclusive partnership for the first-ever Energy Transition Summit Southeastern Europe. 

Türkiye is aiming to become a carbon-neutral economy within 30 years, Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar has said.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has approved a loan of up to 50 million euros for Tenevo Solar Technologies EAD to build and operate a solar photovoltaic plant in southeastern Bulgaria. The project will produce over 300 GWh of electricity annually and help reduce carbon emissions by 250,000 tonnes per year.

Greece this week signed a clean energy deal with the EU in a bid to fast-track the green transition on its fragile islands threatened by overtourism and climate change.

“Happy Name Day to Naxos, which is celebrating today! It is a great joy and fortunate coincidence that we are on this beautiful island, standing before the unique landmark of Naxos, to announce the signing of an important funding mechanism for our islands,” said Kyriakos Mitsotakis during the signing ceremony for the establishment of the Islands Decarbonization Fund.

The energy transition of the Greek economy into a "green" one by 2050 will require investments totaling 436 billion euros, according to a government blueprint presented on Friday.

By Witold Leśniak

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Mining and Energy Dubravka Djedovic Handanovic said on Thursday a Serbia-US agreement on strategic cooperation in the energy sector, signed in Washington on Wednesday, was very important for the upcoming energy transition and that there was great interest among US companies in investing in renewable energy sources in Serbia.

BELGRADE - Serbian FM Marko Djuric and US Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment Jose W Fernandez will sign an agreement on a Serbia-US strategic partnership in the energy sector in Washington on Wednesday.