Western Balkans can skip gas in clean energy transition: report

(ANSA-AFP) – BELGRADE, 16 LUG – Western Balkans countries
have enough prospective solar and wind capacity to skip
gas-fired power plants in their clean energy transitions, a
report said on Tuesday. The six Western Balkan nations
— Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North
Macedonia and Serbia — now produce electricity primarily from
coal and hydropower. But using solar and wind capacities could
generate “four times more electricity than the proposed gas
fleet over their lifetimes”, said the report by Global Energy
Monitor (GEM), a…