Renewable energy

The latest report of the European Environment Agency (EEA) shows that renewable energy sources have been an important driving force in reducing greenhouse gas emissions in Europe.

According to the report entitled "Renewable energy in Europe - approximated recent growth and knock-on effects", greenhouse gas emissions would have been 7 % higher without renewables.

Turkey?s wind power capacity increased to over 3,000 megawatts (MW) with the installation of new facilities totaling 804 MW in 2014, according to wind power body the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC).

Turkey?s wind power capacity rose to 3,763 MW in 2014, according to the GWEC?s Global Report, which also showed the growth of the wind power industry around the world.

Energy, planning, construction legislation passed

BELGRADE -- Serbian MPs adopted on Monday the Energy Law, which envisages "easier investing in the energy domain and greater protection of buyers."

It also "adjusts this economic field with EU regulations," said Tanjug.

BELGRADE - Serbian MPs adopted on Monday the Energy Law by majority vote, which envisages easier investing in the energy domain, ensures greater protection of buyers and adjusts this economic field with the EU regulations.

BELGRADE - The new energy law will throw the door open wide to investors to put money in the energy sector in Serbia, Serbian Minister of Energy and Mining Aleksandar Antic said in the parliament Friday.

Falling oil prices show the "high risk" of fossil fuel investments compared with renewable energies, the U.N.'s climate chief said on Dec. 1 at the start of 190-nation talks on a deal to slow global warming.

Turkey and the United States sign a memorandum of understanding to improve clean wind energy, also signaling more cooperation on nuclear energy Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yıldız and U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz signed a memorandum of understanding on improving clean wind energy between Turkey and the U.S. on Nov. 20.

Romania has extraordinary local energy resources and that is why it is very important that it should no longer remain merely a transit country in the Black Sea region, but it should also become an energy producer, the Energy Department director general Elena Popescu told an international specialised conference on Thursday.

It is possible for Turkey to meet half of its energy needs from renewable energy resources for around the same cost as its current coal-focused energy strategy, according to a new report.

KLADOVO - Serbia's Minister of Mining and Energy Aleksandar Antic opened in Kladovo on Saturday the largest solar power plant in Serbia, owned by a Serbian commpany that invested EUR 3 million in it.