Browsing: coal

After 144 years of operation, the brown coal mine in Zenica is entering its final chapter. Authorities have confirmed the start of the shutdown process, with…

A new self-propelled conveyor system has been installed at the Drmno open-pit mine in Kostolac, with production expected to start in April, according to the power…

Serbia’s electricity system is entering a structurally different operating regime in the 2026–2032 window, driven less by domestic policy shifts than by external market coupling, renewable penetration…

Long-standing legal tensions between Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina over the Ugljevik coal power plant have eased after the Slovenian side agreed to pause international arbitration…

Serbia’s electricity debate increasingly revolves around a deceptively simple question: how to keep the system secure as its traditional stabilizers weaken and its exposure to volatility…

Coal phase-out in South-East Europe is often discussed as a domestic policy pathway, a sequence of unit closures aligned with decarbonisation targets and compliance timetables. In…

The Government of the Republic of Srpska (RS) is expected to make a final decision next week on transferring coal mining concession rights from Comsar Energy…

Operations at the coal-fired thermal power plant Ugljevik were halted shortly after midnight on 12 January after the facility ran out of adequate coal supplies. The…

In 2025 the coal trading landscape in South-East Europe operates in a markedly different mode than it did even five years earlier. Coal is no longer…

The reordering of ownership in South-East Europe’s oil sector has had an effect far beyond fuels and refineries. By forcing oil pricing onto transparent, market-based terms,…