According to the Bulgarian National Statistical Institute, electricity production in October 2025 increased by 8.1% compared to September, reaching 3,175 GWh, while electricity consumption rose even more sharply by 23.6%, amounting to 2,940 GWh. On an annual basis, production was up 9.3%, and consumption grew by 12.7% compared to October 2024. Natural gas consumption in […]
The latest comparisons of retail fuel prices reveal a clear divide across southeastern Europe, with Bosnia and Herzegovina and North Macedonia continuing to rank among the most affordable markets, while Serbia and Slovenia sit at the top of the regional scale, especially when it comes to diesel. For unleaded petrol (BMB 95), Slovenia records the
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The story of South-East Europe’s electricity markets in 2025 is essentially a story of a region learning to navigate a world where stability cannot be assumed and where every structural weakness eventually becomes visible in price behavior. Across the region, 2025 continued the pattern that began after the European energy shock: markets did not collapse,
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If South-East Europe chooses nuclear as a central pillar of its energy future, the decision will not be about engineering alone. Nuclear would fundamentally alter the region’s energy psychology, its economic credibility, and the behavior of its electricity markets. The real intersection between nuclear and the market here is not technical — it is strategic
In South-East Europe, energy strategy has never simply been a technical expression of infrastructure planning. It has always been deeply political, economically sensitive, geopolitically shaped and socially charged. Nuclear power sits right at the center of that tension. It promises long-term stability in a region burdened with volatility. It offers strategic independence in markets traditionally
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South-East Europe has spent most of the past three decades reacting to energy problems rather than shaping its own future. It has lived through power shortages, political dependency, pipeline crises, refinery uncertainties, hydrological shocks, volatile import bills, underinvestment, institutional hesitation and a constant feeling that stability was always one crisis away from disappearing. In 2025,
Energy sectors rarely collapse suddenly. They decay gradually. Systems do not break overnight; they weaken, absorb shocks, survive another season, and quietly accumulate structural fatigue until one day the cost of catching up is far greater than the cost of acting earlier. In 2025, this is the most important risk facing Serbia and much of
For years, energy debates in South-East Europe were dominated by national narratives. Every country spoke about its sovereignty, its own generation plans, its own infrastructure, its own ability to “secure supply independently.” Reality has quietly dismantled those claims. In 2025, the most important lesson emerging from Europe’s shifting energy landscape is that no country in
In public debate, “energy transition” is often presented as inevitability wrapped in optimism: cleaner power, modern technologies, new industry opportunities, cheaper renewables, and a supposedly straightforward path from coal and dependency toward sustainability and independence. But in Serbia — and much of South-East Europe — transition is not a slogan, not a trend, and certainly
In South-East Europe, energy policy has never truly been about kilowatt-hours, barrels or cubic meters alone. It has always been about alignment, leverage, identity, security, credibility and survival. In 2025, that truth is clearer than ever. Serbia stands at the center of a shifting regional energy order, not by choice, but by geography and necessity.
