Source: Tanja Srnovršnik Volarič, Energetika.net

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Source: Emma Rumney, Public Finance International

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has raised €350m ($391m) in the first round of fundraising for its debut Equity Participation Fund.

The fund aims to attract long term institutional capital into the private sector of those countries where the EBRD works. It allows large institutional investors to take 20-30% of the interest in all of the EBRD’s eligible investments above €10m ($11m) during a five-year period.

Source: Maja Zuvela, Reuters

* Chinese-built plant is first privately built in Western Balkans

* Plant increases regional dependent on dirty coal

* Chinese investment playing growing role in region's power

By Maja Zuvela

STANARI, Bosnia, Sept 20 The Balkan region's first privately-funded power plant came online on Tuesday, increasing the region's dependency on coal-fired power stations even as environmental concerns are driving them to the brink of the extinction elsewhere in Europe.

Source: Annemarie Botzki, Interfax Global Energy

Russia’s plan to revive the Turkish Stream pipeline and the Interconnector Turkey-Greece-Italy (ITGI) project could put future projects along the proposed Southern Gas Corridor under even more pressure.

Gulmira Rzayeva, senior research fellow at Azerbaijan’s Center for Strategic Studies, said the pipeline could affect the second stage of field development in Azerbaijan, including as Absheron, which is forecast to begin production in late 2021. [...]