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Bulgaria's lawmakers have voted to roll back plans to decarbonise the country's energy sector.
The move came on Thursday after as more than 1,500 miners and utility workers demonstrated in front of the parliament in support of the coal industry. They were protesting against plans for an early phase-out of coal-fired power plants.
Authorities in Burgas, Bulgaria, presented its solar city strategy during a forum on the future of renewables, energy efficiency and sustainable practices in the city. Authorities would digitalise muc..
Local authorities in Bulgaria are renewing street lighting systems in projects worth almost EUR 9.2 million in total, of which just one tenth is own contribution while 8.3 million was secured through EEA Grants.
Under a program called Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency, Energy Security, funded by the EEA Grants segment of the European Economic Area Financial Mechanism 2014-2020, twenty best-ranked Bulgarian municipalities will receive between EUR 200,000 and EUR 600,000 each to replace street lighting with smart and energy efficient systems.
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has asked European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen for a "plan" to support the country coal phase-out, saying Bulgaria's own capacity was insufficient to achieve the bloc's 2030 climate goals.
Just Transition to Climate Neutrality – Doing Right by the Regions
A report by WWF Germany, February 2020 Just transition is a buzzword in policy circles today. There is consensus that the transition towards climate neutrality should be a just one. However, when and even if such a transition should really take place, is still met with vastly diverging viewpoints. At the same time, what ‘just’ actually means and what its implications are for national and EU policy is even less certain. This report – a review of four case study regions of the transition from coal in Europe – illustrates that even though each region is different, the challenges they face to ensure a just transition from coal are strikingly similar. Download
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Almost 1500 public officials across 129 municipalities in Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Romania, Serbia, and Slovenia increased their capacity to devise new energy renovation strategies thanks to the work of the EmBuild project. These officers can now analyse their local building stocks, use new templates to draft public-sector building renovation strategies, and improve the investment climate at local level. The EmBuild Navigator gives practical help for local authorities, including a catalogue of low-cost measures, and guidance on assessing the non-energy benefits of renovation.
This guide, available in English, Romanian and Bulgarian, runs through the steps that should be taken and content that should be included to meet these new requirements and produce a thorough and successful strategy, highlighting specific areas that need to be addressed in Bulgaria and/or Romania and examples of good practice by different Member States. The list of elements to include in the renovation strategy, as set out in the Directive, provides a basic content outline. This has been structured to follow the phases of development and implementation. The key steps in developing a renovation strategy can be divided into six phases, with stakeholder consultation throughout the process, and the feedback loop to review and update the strategy regularly.
The Bulgarian government has put up for public debate an updated national action plan to improve energy efficiency across the country.
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Sofia (Bulgaria) has unveiled the Green Ring project, a 30-kilometre-long park and bike lane that is supposed to connect residential areas and increase the quality of life and access to sustainable mo..
EXPERT TALKS is a new initiative from BUILD UP. In the form of face-to-face interviews, experts coming from all around Europe and covering the field of Energy Efficiency in buildings from different perspectives share their views, experience and expertise with BUILD UP audience. The interviews address relevant topics linked to the Topic of the Month.
The 11th edition of our Expert Talks hosts Dragomir Tzanev, Executive Director of Center for Energy Efficiency EnEffect and official representative of Municipal Energy Efficiency Network EcoEnergy – Bulgaria.
The Green Deal shows how to transform our way of life and work so that we live more efficiently, said Chairperson of the Committee on Environment and Water in parliament Ivelina Vasileva at an online conference on “Climate policy and the Green Deal ” – challenges and opportunities”. The organizer of the forum is the Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria …
Sofia Municipality has informed locals that they can take part in local governance through its new programme for the implementation of citizen-backed projects. Simply by voting, locals will be able to choose which projects will then be implemented.
Direct participation of all stakeholders
The "Sofia chooses" program aims to encourage the direct participation of citizens, non-governmental and professional organizations in proposing projects and in the distribution of the municipal budget. Some BGN 1.5 million (750,000 euros) have been allocated for the program in the 2021 municipal budget.
Upon completion the plant will produce approximately 55 megawatts (MW) of heat and 19 MW of electricity. Around 180 000 tonnes per year of unrecyclable municipal waste will be used to fuel the plant. The installation set up by Toplofikacia EAD, a wholly owned Sofia municipality company will be connected to the Sofia district heating network. The construction will be finalised by the end of 2023.
France, Greece and Bulgaria have pledged to update their national targets for renewable energy and bump up the share of wind, solar and other renewables to 33%, 35% and 27% of their energy consumption respectively by 2030.
Bulgaria is preparing to launch its Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency and Energy Security Program, with an estimated EUR 33 million budget to finance street lighting, geothermal and hydropower utilization, energy efficiency in buildings, and other projects, the Ministry of Energy has said on its website.
Tanya Hristova was the Mayor of Gabrovo Municipality in the period 2011-2015 and was re-elected for a second mandate at the local elections in October 2015. At present, she is the leader of the Bulgarian delegation of the local authorities at the Committee of the regions in Brussels and a full member of the Commission for Territorial Cohesion Policy and EU Budget and Commission for Social Policy, Education, Employment, Research and Culture.
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Eleven European countries, including Slovenia, Romania, and Bulgaria, have no concrete plans for introducing tenders for renewable energy sources (RES) in the short term, while Croatia has indicated it will start with tendering procedures for biomass this year, according to the Council of the European Energy Regulators’ (CEER) Tendering procedures for RES in Europe: State of play and first lessons learnt report.
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