FORMER YUGOSLAVIA TRIES TO MOVE BEYOND THE DIRTY INEFFICIENT ENERGY SECTOR OF ITS PAST
July 1st, 2010
BY ZLATKO CONKAS, and KEITH NUTHALL
WHEN imagining Europe's greenest and most efficient energy systems, the countries of the former Yugoslavia do not readily spring to mind. The simple truth is Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and even Slovenia have a reputation for having ageing energy dirty systems. And that was before most of these countries were mired in civil war during the 1990s. A recent World Bank assessment of the western Balkans energy sectors (the ex-Yugo republics minus Croatia and Slovenia and plus Albania) ...
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