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Southeast Europe continued to reduce its reliance on coal during the second quarter of 2026, but the normalisation of hydro conditions brought natural gas back into…

Daily capacity auctions in Q2 2026 showed that market participants were placing increasing value on several Southeast European electricity corridors, even as overall electricity trade between…

CBAM compliance is emerging as a project-finance issue for renewable energy developments in the Western Balkans. Access to EU electricity price benchmarks can materially influence project…

Aggregators and electricity traders could play a central role in enabling CBAM-compliant renewable electricity exports from the Western Balkans, provided that the contractual chain maintains a…

Fixed-volume renewable power purchase agreements are facing a new compliance challenge under the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). Electricity used to cover production shortfalls may…

A 130 MW wind farm in the Western Balkans could lose around €8.9 million over six months if it is unable to access Hungarian electricity prices…

The gap between commercial electricity schedules and physical power flows widened across the Western Balkan transmission network during the second quarter of 2026, creating an increasingly…

Albania and North Macedonia entered the definitive CBAM period with sharply different positions in the regional electricity market. Their respective electricity links with Greece now illustrate…

The submarine electricity interconnector between Montenegro and Italy has become one of the clearest examples of how CBAM is reshaping the relationship between wholesale price spreads,…

Serbia’s electricity system is taking on a more important regional role as commercial power flows increasingly move northwards towards Hungary and, potentially, onwards to Ukraine. Scheduled…