From MW to TWh: Why Serbia’s energy transition metrics are misleading exporters Read More »

From MW to TWh: Why Serbia’s energy transition metrics are misleading exporters

Serbia’s energy transition is still described almost entirely in megawatts. New projects are announced in MW, targets are framed in MW, and public debate treats capacity additions as if they were interchangeable with usable energy. For CBAM-exposed exporters, this framing is not just incomplete—it is actively misleading. What determines competitiveness under CBAM is not how […]

Wind as Serbia’s CBAM backbone: Why solar-heavy decarbonisation fails industrial buyers Read More »

Wind as Serbia’s CBAM backbone: Why solar-heavy decarbonisation fails industrial buyers

Serbia’s response to the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism is quietly drifting toward a solar-heavy narrative. This is understandable. Solar is modular, politically visible, quick to announce, and easy to frame in megawatts. But for CBAM-exposed industrial buyers, this approach is structurally flawed. It confuses installed capacity with delivered value and mistakes headline decarbonisation optics

Grid delays as a hidden CBAM tax: How 18 months can quietly wipe out Serbia’s export margins Read More »

Grid delays as a hidden CBAM tax: How 18 months can quietly wipe out Serbia’s export margins

In Serbia’s debate on CBAM exposure, grid infrastructure is still treated as a background constraint—important, but secondary. That framing is dangerously wrong. For CBAM-exposed exporters, grid delays function as an unlegislated carbon tax, imposed not by Brussels but by physics, timing, and procurement logic. Unlike formal CBAM charges, this tax does not appear on invoices.

Aggregation is the missing market: Why Serbia needs an industrial green power aggregator Read More »

Aggregation is the missing market: Why Serbia needs an industrial green power aggregator

Serbia’s debate on green electricity and CBAM exposure has so far focused on capacity build-out and contract pricing. Both matter, but neither addresses the structural failure that increasingly determines outcomes for industrial exporters: the absence of aggregation and portfolio-level control. In a power system moving rapidly toward higher shares of intermittent generation, value no longer

Aggregation and virtual balancing: Why portfolio-level control becomes the decisive value lever in Serbia Read More »

Aggregation and virtual balancing: Why portfolio-level control becomes the decisive value lever in Serbia

As Serbia’s renewable fleet moves from isolated projects toward system-material portfolios, the center of gravity in value creation shifts away from individual plant performance and toward aggregation, virtual balancing, and coordinated dispatch. This layer sits above turbines, panels, and batteries. It is not hardware; it is market access, control logic, and portfolio optimization, and it

Serbia: Onshore wind platform shows stronger IRR resilience and lower grid stress than solar at scale Read More »

Serbia: Onshore wind platform shows stronger IRR resilience and lower grid stress than solar at scale

A 400–600 MW onshore wind portfolio in Serbia behaves fundamentally differently from a solar-dominated build-out once projects reach system-material size. The difference is not cosmetic or theoretical. It shows up directly in annual generation stability, capture prices, curtailment behavior, and—most importantly for investors—equity IRR resilience under grid stress and delays. Wind’s advantage begins with physics.

Serbia: Solar-plus-storage platform emerges as a system-scale energy asset Read More »

Serbia: Solar-plus-storage platform emerges as a system-scale energy asset

A close Serbian analogue to the Masdar–EPCG concept in Montenegro is the strategic partnership under which EPS Elektroprivreda Srbije and the Hyundai Engineering–UGT Renewables consortium agreed on a state-led rollout of utility-scale solar generation paired with battery storage. The structure is explicitly designed as a self-balancing renewable platform, with construction and initial operation led by the consortium, followed

Europe: Grid build-out is stalling at the equipment and integration layer: A near-sourced execution solution from South-East Europe Read More »

Europe: Grid build-out is stalling at the equipment and integration layer: A near-sourced execution solution from South-East Europe

Europe’s electricity transition has reached a phase where policy ambition and capital availability are no longer the binding constraints. The limiting factor is execution. Transmission and distribution operators across the continent have secured investment envelopes that now push annual grid-related capital expenditure toward €110–130 billion by the late 2020s. Yet project timelines are slipping, EPC risk premiums

Europe: New power backbone strategy and its transformational impact on Southeast Europe’s energy grid Read More »

Europe: New power backbone strategy and its transformational impact on Southeast Europe’s energy grid

Europe’s electricity landscape entered a new era in late 2025 when the European Commission unveiled a comprehensive Grids Package designed to modernise, expand and future-proof the continent’s electricity network. This initiative aims to address persistent infrastructure bottlenecks that have limited cross-border flows, constrained renewable energy growth, and contributed to stark price disparities across markets. What

How U.S. energy strategy is reshaping Southeast Europe’s gas market Read More »

How U.S. energy strategy is reshaping Southeast Europe’s gas market

Southeast Europe’s gas market entered 2025 in a structurally different position from where it stood only a few years earlier. The transformation has been driven less by short-term price movements and more by a deliberate geopolitical and infrastructure strategy in which the United States has assumed a central role. The November 2025 analysis by the

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