Serbia Energy News
Leading SEE regional online magazine with dedicated energy and mining focused news. Since 2007 covering the power market news of Serbia and region of South East Europe.
Serbia Energy News
Leading SEE regional online magazine with dedicated energy and mining focused news. Covering the power market news of Serbia and region of South East Europe since 2007.
Romania is pursuing two very different nuclear energy investment pathways, each with a distinct risk…
Romania’s battery energy storage sector is entering a new stage of development as investment shifts…
Montenegro’s renewable energy sector is entering a new phase of development, supported by a growing…
Serbia’s oil and gas company NIS returned to profitability in the first half of 2026,…
Serbia’s prolonged drought has significantly changed the strategic role of its hydropower assets, exposing the…
The Vertical Gas Corridor is increasingly moving beyond its original purpose as an emergency response…
South-East European day-ahead prices remained elevated on Friday, but the market split sharply between the…
Italy remained one of the most expensive electricity markets in Southeast Europe during Week 26…
Variable renewable energy (VRE) generation increased across Southeast Europe during Week 26 (22–28 June 2026),…
Hydropower, one of Southeast Europe’s most valuable sources of flexibility during periods of high electricity…
The final week of June highlighted one of the most important dynamics shaping Southeast Europe’s…
Thermal generation reaffirmed its role as the primary price-setting force across Southeast Europe’s electricity markets…
The Vertical Gas Corridor, the strategic gas route connecting Greece with Ukraine, has reached a…
Around 600,000 households in Croatia are expected to face higher natural gas bills when the…
Russian natural gas still represents roughly 12% of EU gas consumption, suggesting that the bloc’s…
Hungarian state-owned energy group MVM has completed the expansion of its Ajka gas-fired power plant…
Preparations for the investor agreement covering Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Southern Gas Interconnection are entering their…
Serbia is approaching another electricity-price adjustment as regulated household tariffs increasingly diverge from the investment…
Serbia expects to import approximately 6.93TWh of electricity in 2026, confirming that cross-border purchases remain an…
Serbia remained a net electricity importer in 2025, with the value of imported power increasing by 30.3% from…
The average electricity bill for Montenegrin households increased to €33.80 in June 2026, reflecting higher seasonal…
Romanian transmission system operator Transelectrica and Georgian State Electrosystem have begun the technical-development phase of a proposed 1,300 MW electricity interconnector…
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The Montenegrin Government has approved a major financing package for state-owned utility EPCG, combining investment…
Hydropower continues to underpin electricity system stability across South-East Europe (SEE), reinforcing its status as…
The subsidiary of the power utility ERS, “Hidroelektrane na Drini”, which operates the Višegrad hydropower…
Bulgaria has returned another generating unit at the Chaira pumped-storage hydropower plant to operation, strengthening…
Montenegrin state-owned utility EPCG and French energy giant EDF have intensified discussions on potential joint…
Serbian authorities have extended a set of emergency measures designed to stabilize the domestic fuel…
Rising fuel costs driven by tensions in the Middle East are having uneven effects on…
The European Union is unlikely to introduce a full ban on Russian oil imports or…
During the fourth week of May, Brent crude oil futures (Front Month, ICE) remained below…
The United States has granted energy companies additional time to complete agreements related to the…
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is due to consider on 22 July an up to €30 million senior secured project-finance loan for a major expansion of the Tenevo…
Southeast European peak power prices are likely to remain supported in the near term unless wind and hydropower output recover, gas prices decline or import pressure…
Southeast European power markets are developing a distinct regional risk premium, after Week 27 saw electricity prices rise across most SEE markets while northwest Europe moved…
Southeast Europe’s tightening power balance is strengthening the investment case for flexible power assets, after Week 27 brought higher electricity demand, weaker renewable and hydropower output,…
Southeast European power markets tightened in Week 27, while northwest Europe moved in the opposite direction, creating a clear regional split. The divergence was driven by…
Greece is preparing a rapid expansion of electricity storage, targeting 1.5 GW of operating battery capacity by mid-2027 and approximately 3 GW by the end of 2028. The programme…
Serbia’s ambitious solar and battery storage programme is emerging as one of the most significant state-backed clean energy initiatives in Southeast Europe. The project brings together…
Serbia’s renewable energy sector is entering a more advanced stage of development as projects move beyond auction awards and investment announcements into active construction. The launch…
Serbia intends to complete the initial assessment phase of its national nuclear programme by mid-2027, establish the necessary institutional and regulatory framework by 2032, and begin construction of…
Serbia and Southeast Europe are entering a metals cycle in which the decisive question is no longer only what lies underground. The stronger question is whether…
Serbia’s next clean-energy opportunity is no longer limited to building individual renewable projects. The more strategic opportunity sits between wind generation, solar generation, battery storage, industrial electricity demand, export competitiveness and verified carbon…
On 7 August 2026, the Southeast European electricity market entered a period of growing divergence between lower average day-ahead prices and increasing dependence on physical electricity…
Southeast Europe’s renewable energy market is entering a more advanced phase of development. As wind, solar and battery projects accelerate across the region, grid access is…
A simultaneous drought-related shutdown of all operating nuclear power plants in Southeast Europe would remove nearly 5.9 GW of dependable low-carbon generation from the regional electricity…
The introduction of negative day-ahead electricity prices on the ALPEX power exchange represents a significant step in the development of Albania’s electricity market. Although the regulatory…
Romania’s Black Sea energy strategy is expanding beyond the development of a single resource, as the offshore region becomes a strategic hub for multiple energy and…
In March 2026, the Krško Nuclear Power Plant, jointly operated by Slovenia and Croatia, produced a total of 521,396 MWh of net electricity, exceeding the planned…
The ongoing replacement of Russian nuclear fuel with supplies from Westinghouse Electric Company at Unit 5 of the Bulgarian nuclear power plant Kozloduy is progressing without…
A new phase in Croatia’s energy policy is taking shape as the Government has submitted a final draft law on civilian nuclear energy development to Parliament,…
A debate over Croatia’s future energy direction has intensified after Prime Minister Andrej Plenković signaled that the site of the thermal power plant Plomin is being…
Efforts to advance the expansion of Bulgaria’s Kozloduy nuclear power plant have entered a sensitive phase, as authorities push for stricter cost control and more disciplined…
The world’s largest mining group, BHP Group, is deepening its presence in eastern Serbia as it searches for the next large-scale copper-gold discovery comparable to the…
Europe’s metallurgical transition from volume-driven output to value-intensive production is inseparable from energy economics. Carbon pricing, electricity market volatility, gas supply risk, and grid capacity constraints…
Serbia has quietly become one of the most intensively explored mining jurisdictions in continental Europe. Over the past fifteen years, the country has shifted from a…
Europe’s metallurgical and critical raw materials supply chain is not being dismantled, nor is it being rebuilt in the way official strategies describe. Instead, it is…
The reconfiguration of ownership in South-East Europe’s oil sector has accelerated a broader investment cycle across energy infrastructure, grids, transport electrification and industrial upgrades. Less visible,…
