In 2025, Greece solidified its position as a regional electricity supplier, with cross-border flows shifting sharply in favor of exports, according to data from the national energy regulator. Net electricity exports soared to 2,671 GWh, a dramatic increase from just 307 GWh recorded in 2024. The figures confirm that the positive export trend observed in […]
Over the past five years, the LNG terminal in Omišalj on the island of Krk has become a key pillar of gas supply security for Croatia and the wider region. Since entering operation, the facility has handled 18.8 million cubic meters of liquefied natural gas, delivering more than 11.3 billion cubic meters of natural gas
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Thermal power plant Ugljevik has been offline since the start of the year after a serious incident that occurred on 30 December, forcing the unit to disconnect from the power grid. According to available information, the outage was caused by a failure in the slag removal system, reportedly linked to human error. Malfunctions in the
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Bosnia and Herzegovina’s state-owned power utility Elektroprivreda Republike Srpske (ERS) has launched a new procurement procedure to assess the possible expansion of the Visegrad hydropower plant, focusing on the installation of an additional generating unit. The tender was published through its subsidiary Hidroelektrane na Drini and includes the preparation of a conceptual design and a
Russian natural gas deliveries to European markets collapsed in 2025, plunging by roughly 44% compared with the previous year and hitting their lowest level since the mid-1970s. This historic decline followed the shutdown of the Ukrainian transit corridor in January and the European Union’s accelerating campaign to phase out Russian fossil fuel imports. Earlier this
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Carbon trading and green certificates are becoming the next decisive cost and competitiveness variables for South-East European energy systems and Serbia’s industrial base, sitting alongside CBAM, electricity pricing and decarbonisation CAPEX as core elements of the new regional market architecture. What was once a technical policy theme has now become a financial reality. Carbon prices,
In 2025 industrial electricity prices across South-East Europe have stabilised into a narrower and more predictable corridor than during the crisis years, but they remain structurally higher than the pre-2021 baseline. For most South-East European markets, large industrial buyers are paying all-in electricity prices generally in the 95 to 130 euros per MWh band, depending
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By 2025 South-East Europe’s electricity market has turned into a dense web of cross-border flows where almost every country is simultaneously an importer and an exporter, often within the same day. Annual balances, hourly flows and price patterns show a region that is no longer a peripheral appendage to the core EU market but an
Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism is about to turn from a regulatory acronym into a direct price signal that reshapes capital investment for South-East European power utilities and coal-fired thermal plants. From 2026, electricity imported into the European Union will carry a carbon cost that mirrors the EU emissions trading price. For non-EU countries in the
While hydropower determines how fat the margins are in wet years, coal and lignite still determine whether the lights stay on at scale in much of South-East Europe. Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania and North Macedonia all continue to rely on coal-fired thermal power plants (TPPs) for a substantial share of baseload. Behind
