The town of Visoko, located near Sarajevo, is stepping into the future of clean, community-driven energy with the BIHREC project, an initiative led by Sarajevska regionalna razvojna agencija (SERDA) in partnership with Green Sustainable Solutions from Croatia and the Association for Green Hydrogen in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This ambitious project aims to establish a Renewable […]
In the village of Popovci, Serbia, residents are taking charge of their energy future through the Beli Breg Renewable Energy Community (REC). This citizen-driven initiative demonstrates how local communities can collectively generate, share, and manage renewable energy, primarily through solar photovoltaic installations, while fostering rural revitalization, social cohesion, and sustainable development. At its core, Beli
Montenegro is witnessing a transformative wave in community-led renewable energy with the RECME2 project, an ambitious initiative aiming to establish integrated Renewable Energy Communities (RECs) across the country. With four local pilot initiatives — in Bar, Podgorica (two sites), and Nikšić — RECME2 combines solar photovoltaic (PV) systems with battery energy storage (BESS) to enable
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In the scenic municipality of Përmet, Albania, local residents are taking the lead in shaping their energy future. The Përmet Renewable Energy Community (REC) is a pioneering initiative demonstrating how citizens can collaboratively produce, manage, and benefit from renewable energy, while fostering local engagement, sustainability, and resilience. The community’s early achievements include solar photovoltaic (PV)
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In the small village of Belica, North Macedonia, a determined group of residents is transforming the way their community interacts with energy. The Belica Renewable Energy Community (REC) represents one of the first local initiatives in the country to demonstrate how citizens can collectively produce, consume, and manage renewable energy. What started as a vision
Serbia’s quantified exporter green-electricity gap of 0.4–1.4 TWh per year is best treated as a build programme with a proof layer, not as a policy slogan. The number matters because it represents the volume of electricity that CBAM-exposed exporters would need to cover with traceable renewable attributes—in practice, Guarantees of Origin that can be assigned
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Serbia’s CBAM exposure is often discussed as if it were a reporting problem that sits inside customs paperwork and corporate sustainability departments. In reality, from 2026 onward, it behaves more like a competitiveness tax on industrial systems that cannot credibly separate themselves from a coal-heavy electricity baseline. That is the Serbian problem in its simplest
From 1 January 2026, electricity imported into the EU from Energy Community Contracting Parties is explicitly within CBAM’s scope, creating an administrative and financial layer on cross-border power flows that did not previously exist. For Serbia, this matters in a very specific way: the CBAM exposure on electricity is not driven by what a single
The European Union’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) has begun reshaping the competitive landscape for heavy industry across Europe’s neighboring economies. For Serbia, whose industrial base remains closely integrated with EU manufacturing supply chains, the new carbon border policy introduces both immediate trade risks and long-term structural incentives to modernize production and energy systems. From
The EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is not a regulation addressed to banks, yet for the Serbian banking sector it has become a material risk factor that is already influencing credit decisions, portfolio composition, and capital allocation. CBAM operates formally at the EU border, but its economic impact propagates upstream through exporters, industrial clients,
