In October 2025, total electricity consumption in North Macedonia reached 552,055 MWh, while natural gas consumption totaled 32.7 million cubic meters, coal consumption amounted to 340,268 tons, and petroleum product use stood at 101,913 tons. According to the State Statistical Office, 92.6% of electricity consumption was met by domestic production, and 99.9% of coal consumption […]
Earlier this month, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s state-owned utility EPBiH launched a procurement procedure for the construction of a flue gas denitrification facility at the Kakanj thermal power plant, representing a significant step toward aligning the country’s coal-based electricity generation with European environmental standards. The value of the investment is estimated at around €32 million. The
According to the Agency for Statistics of Bosnia and Herzegovina, gross electricity production in the country reached 1,232 GWh in October 2025, compared to 1,142 GWh in the same month last year. Hydropower plants accounted for 24.2% of total output, while thermal power plants dominated with 66.5%, and solar and wind power plants contributed 9.3%.
The question of who truly controls electricity in South-East Europe is not really about megawatts alone. It is about who controls movement, who controls visibility, who absorbs risk and who can turn fragmented national markets into a single tradable system. When you step back and examine Albania, North Macedonia and Montenegro together with Croatia, Bosnia
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 manage risk across multiple fragmented but interdependent markets. Albania, North Macedonia and Montenegro sit at the centre of this landscape, not as large demand centres but as strategically positioned
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Infrastructure does not lie. Where political speeches can overpromise and strategies can remain theoretical, infrastructure exposes whether a region truly intends to change. In South-East Europe, the Trans-Balkan Electricity Corridor is more than a transmission project. It is the moment where electricity rhetoric finally meets the physical world — and where a region must decide
Europe’s seventy-percent cross-zonal electricity rule is not a bureaucratic exercise. It is a structural redefinition of how power markets in Europe are meant to behave. The principle is blunt: at least seventy percent of available cross-border transmission capacity must be made open for electricity trading. This obligation operationalises a strategic truth — that modern electricity
South-East Europe remains a strange contradiction in Europe’s energy map. This is a region that has hydropower heritage, available renewable potential, strong interconnection corridors on paper, and strategic positioning between EU and non-EU systems. Yet it continues to live with some of the most volatile, politically sensitive and economically disruptive electricity pricing realities on the
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Europe is rewriting its energy future. Electricity markets are being redesigned for precision, flexibility and integration. Gas politics have shifted from dependency illusion to hardened resilience. For many parts of the EU core, this transformation has already begun stabilising energy systems, restoring confidence and building the backbone of a decarbonising industrial continent. In South-East Europe,
Europe is entering a completely new electricity era. Power markets are becoming faster, more precise and far more complex than anything seen in the last decade. Trading is shifting to 15-minute intervals, interconnectors are being treated as strategic security assets, capacity mechanisms are moving toward coordinated European frameworks, and renewable overproduction is becoming a structural
