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Hydropower in South-East Europe: Feasibility without commitment, projects without groundworks

Across South-East Europe, hydropower development has settled into a stable but deeply unproductive equilibrium. Feasibility studies are commissioned, revised and relaunched with increasing technical sophistication, while the physical projects they describe remain untouched. This is not a failure of hydrology, engineering or economics. It is a deliberate system in which analysis substitutes for decision-making and […]

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Bulgaria hits a renewable milestone: Solar, wind and hydro surpass coal in electricity generation

Bulgaria’s electricity sector reached a historic milestone in 2025, as renewable energy sources became the country’s second-largest producer of electricity, surpassed only by nuclear power. For the first time, combined generation from solar, wind, hydropower, biomass, and waste exceeded output from coal-fired plants, signaling that the energy transition has moved from concept to reality. Data

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Bosnia and Herzegovina: Republic of Srpska powers through 2025 challenges with continued energy investment and HPP Dabar breakthrough

Despite a year marked by serious operational challenges, the electricity sector of the Republic of Srpska (RS) maintained its investment momentum throughout 2025. Exceptionally poor hydrological conditions, combined with thermal power plants struggling with inconsistent coal quality and supply disruptions, resulted in reduced overall electricity generation. Nevertheless, electricity supply to consumers remained secure, and prices

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Bosnia and Herzegovina: ERS launches tender for feasibility study on HPP Visegrad expansion

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

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Water, steel and margins – How hydropower shapes the electricity economics of South-East Europe

Hydropower is still the quiet balance-sheet engine of the South-East European power system. While wind and solar dominate headlines, it is the big river cascades, mountain reservoirs and ageing dams that decide whether utilities report record profits or scramble for imports at thin margins. Across Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, North Macedonia, Croatia, Romania,

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Romania: Tarnita-Lapustesti pump-storage project gains momentum with EDF partnership

After decades of delays and repeated restarts, Romania’s long-planned Tarnita-Lapustesti pump-storage hydropower project is moving forward. Hidroelectrica and French energy company EDF have agreed to jointly develop the 1,000 MW facility, marking the most concrete step yet in reviving one of the country’s largest energy infrastructure projects. Under the plan, Hidroelectrica and EDF Power Solutions

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Bosnia and Herzegovina: Renewables offset declines in coal and hydro

Bosnia and Herzegovina generated 14.4 TWh of electricity in 2025, matching the previous year’s total despite noticeably weaker performance from both coal-fired and hydropower plants. The stability of overall output was achieved only because new wind and solar capacity stepped in to fill the gap left by traditional sources. According to data from the country’s

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Bulgaria: Končar wins €4.9 million contract to modernize Teshel and Devin hydropower plants

Croatian engineering group Končar has further expanded its presence in southeastern Europe after being selected to carry out a major modernization of two hydropower plants in Bulgaria. The project was awarded following a public procurement procedure organized by the state-owned power utility NEK and covers a comprehensive overhaul of the Teshel and Devin plants, which

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Renewables and storage in SEE: Between ambition, reality and the question of who truly joins Europe’s green energy future

Europe has already crossed a strategic threshold. Renewables are no longer an experimental transition concept; they are the backbone of its emerging power system. Wind, solar and hydropower are structurally rewriting electricity economics. Storage is shifting from a niche support function into an essential strategic pillar. Flexibility has become capital. Stability now depends not on

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North Macedonia secures €97 million to boost solar and hydropower projects, strengthening energy security

North Macedonia has formalized state guarantees and loan agreements totaling €97 million to advance two major energy investments aimed at reshaping the country’s electricity sector. The funding package supports the construction of the Bitola 3 solar power plant and a broad program to modernize existing hydropower facilities. The Bitola 3 solar project carries a total

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