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19 jun 2025

Balkan Green Energy News

Western Balkan coal plants cut harmful emissions in 2024 but breaches remain extreme

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"Western Balkan coal plants cut harmful emissions in 2024 but breaches remain extreme", 19 June 2025

...Seven years since pollution control rules came into force under the Energy Community Treaty, SO2 emissions from coal plants included in the national emission reduction plans (NERPs) of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, North Macedonia and Serbia were still collectively six times as high as allowed, Bankwatch said in its Comply or Close annual report.

Region-wide, SO2 emissions decreased 12.1% year over year, to 518,248 tons, but it’s only 14.5% down from 2018. The limits were more stringent in 2024 than in previous years, as is the case with PM pollution and NOx, which widened the compliance gap.

...Bosnia and Herzegovina’s NERP coal plants were the highest SO2 emitters, with 212,840 tons altogether – an increase of 17.1% from the previous year – and 11.3 times as high as allowed...

Serbia followed, with 205,925 tons, or 4.6 times as high as allowed. The total amount of SO2 emissions fell 30.1% on an annual basis, landing at the lowest level since at least 2018. The decrease in the country was higher than in the whole region. Of note, Serbia has a new coal plant, too – Kostolac B3.

The (insufficient) drop in SO2 emissions from the NERP facilities in the country is due to desulfurization units. Some of the other improvements in the region regarding air pollution came from a decrease in production...

Ugljevik accounts for over one fifth of SO2 emissions in region as desulfurization unit is idle...

Five coal units operating illegally [in Montenegro]...

Gacko coal plant tops chart in particulate matter emissions...

“EU enlargement is back on the agenda, but the harsh reality is that Western Balkan governments are showing no interest in people’s health or the environment. Instead of a robust response to these chronic breaches, the European Commission recently prioritised the Jadar lithium mine in Serbia as strategic, rewarding the regime’s failure to uphold the rule of law. This has to change, and fast,” said Bankwatch’s Southeast Europe Energy Policy Officer Pippa Gallop.

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