Browsing: Western Balkans

Coal is no longer only an environmental liability in the Western Balkans. It is becoming a financial stability problem for utilities, governments and energy markets. The…

A quiet but increasingly consequential transformation is unfolding across South-East Europe. For decades, the Western Balkans were largely perceived inside European energy policy as a fragmented…

The decision to advance the Southern Gas Interconnection between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, led by AAFS Infrastructure and Energy, marks a structural inflection point in the…

From 1 January 2026, electricity imported into the EU from non-EU neighbours entered the CBAM charging phase. EU importers now need authorised declarant status, must declare embedded…

Across Europe’s industrial policy architecture, a quiet but consequential shift is underway. What was once classified as environmental liability—mine tailings, slag heaps, and decades of accumulated…

The introduction of the European Union’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) has begun to transform the competitive landscape of electricity trading in Southeast Europe. What initially…

Power trading in the Western Balkans has never simply been about electricity. It is about geography, interconnection politics, hydrology, capital, algorithmic capability and the ability to…

The Western Balkans and Southeast Europe are entering a new strategic energy era, one in which electricity — its production, exchange, security, and geopolitical meaning —…

For more than half a century, the Balkans lived inside a predictable energy ecosystem: electricity from domestic coal, oil and gas pipelines dominated by Russia, and…

Artur Lorkowski, Director of the Energy Community Secretariat, has stated that none of the Energy Community contracting parties, including those in the Western Balkans, will be…