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Industrial gas prices in 2025 in South-East Europe: Serbia versus Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia and Greece (€/MWh)

In 2025, natural gas pricing for heavy industry across South-East Europe was shaped far less by daily hub quotations and far more by structural access, contract indexation and security premiums. While wholesale European gas prices stabilised compared with the extreme volatility of 2022–2023, the delivered price paid by energy-intensive industry continued to diverge sharply across […]

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Serbia’s industrial electricity price in 2025 versus neighbouring countries: A heavy-industry benchmark based on delivered cost, risk and market structure

By 2025, electricity pricing for heavy industry in South-East Europe had stopped being a question of headline wholesale averages and had become a question of delivered cost under risk. Across Serbia and its neighbouring countries, the decisive variables for steel mills, copper smelters, cement kilns, fertiliser plants, chemical producers and large food processors were no

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Power systems digital engineering and grid intelligence: How Serbia is becoming Europe’s execution backbone

Europe’s electricity system is entering a phase where engineering capacity, not capital or political will, has become the primary constraint. Across the continent, transmission and distribution operators are under pressure to connect unprecedented volumes of renewables, reinforce aging grids, integrate flexibility, and comply with increasingly complex regulatory requirements. The common bottleneck is no longer financing or

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Serbia as Europe’s energy shock absorber: How South-East Europe carries the burden of the core markets

Europe’s energy transition is entering a phase where ambition, capital and policy alignment are no longer the binding constraints. The limiting factor has become execution. Across power generation, grids, storage and flexibility assets, the physical act of delivering projects on time and at predictable cost has turned into the system’s weakest link. In this new

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Applied energy engineering: The missing near-sourcing link in Europe

Applied energy engineering completes the near-sourcing picture for Europe’s energy transition, filling a structural gap that hardware manufacturing, raw-materials access and capital mobilisation alone cannot resolve. While policy debate and investment narratives focus on turbines, transformers, batteries and grids, the limiting factor increasingly sits upstream in the delivery chain. Europe’s transition is engineering-intensive, yet engineering capacity

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Industrial cybersecurity engineering (OT / SCADA): Why Serbia is becoming Europe’s defensive execution layer

Industrial cybersecurity has moved decisively out of the IT department and into the operational core of Europe’s energy and industrial systems. Power grids, substations, pipelines, refineries, water systems, rail networks and factories now depend on operational technology (OT) and SCADA environments that were never designed for hostile digital environments. As connectivity increases, so does exposure. Regulators, insurers and system

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Energy near-sourcing as Germany’s industrial pressure valve: How Serbia fits into power, grid, equipment and services value chains

Germany’s energy transition has entered a phase where technical feasibility is no longer the binding constraint. The bottleneck is industrial execution under cost, time and risk pressure. Power generation assets can be planned, grids can be modelled, and hydrogen strategies can be drafted, but the physical delivery of energy infrastructure—plants, substations, converters, storage systems, control

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Manipulation of electricity import prices in SEE power market

A report by the Kosovo Transmission System and Market Operator (KOSTT) suggests possible manipulation of prices for electricity imported into Kosovo, implicating Serbia’s state energy company Elektroprivreda Srbije (EPS) and private trader Noa Energy Trade in coordinated behaviour during cross-border capacity auctions in 2025. The findings raise questions about how auction mechanisms were used to inflate transmission costs beyond the underlying electricity

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Why EPS ceded coal landfills to foreign JV partners instead of building solar and storage alone

The decision by power utility EPS to open its coal ash landfills, overburden dumps and degraded mining land to foreign joint-venture partners for solar and battery storage projects looks puzzling at first glance. EPS owns the land, controls grid access, understands the system better than any private player, and in theory enjoys implicit sovereign backing. In

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EPS between reversible hydropower and gas plants: Flagship projects that never cross the point of no return

Within EPS power utility company the story of repeated feasibility does not stop with classical hydropower. It becomes even more pronounced when looking at projects explicitly designed to solve Serbia’s most visible system weaknesses: flexibility, balancing and security of supply. Reversible hydropower and gas-fired generation have been identified for more than a decade as strategic answers

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