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 […]
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
The Federal Ministry of Environment and Tourism has officially launched the initial assessment procedure for a major wind energy project planned in the municipality of Glamoč. The request was submitted by local developer Vjetroelektrane, which is seeking approval to prepare a preliminary environmental impact assessment (EIA) study for the Slovinj wind farm. The project envisages
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%.
Oil in South-East Europe is not simply about consumption, demand curves, or refinery margins. It is about who controls access points, who commands refining capability, who manages pipelines and terminals, and who operates under which geopolitical influence. Unlike electricity, which is tied to internal generation and balancing, and unlike gas, which is dominated by dependency
Gas in South-East Europe is not just a commodity. It is infrastructure, geopolitics, finance, and strategic vulnerability wrapped together. Unlike electricity, which is inherently domestic to its grids even when cross-border trade is high, gas is structurally external in SEE. These markets depend on who can bring molecules into the region, who controls the pipelines,
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
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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
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
