The Power Brokers

Throughout southeast Europe, the lights are going off. In Romania alone, about 300,000 households were disconnected for...

The nations of southeast European are making sweeping changes to create a single energy market to spur competition, attract...

Politics and controversial trading contracts complicate the country's electricity situation.

Frequent blackouts drive residents to buy their own generators to keep businesses and homes running.

Serbian businessman Vuk Hamovi has parlayed skill in the complicated world of debt and energy trading into one of the...

In a country that produces more electricity than it needs, the email family in Sarajevo spent the whole month of last...

The closure of Bulgaria's nuclear reactors will shrink its power supply and shift the whole regions energy situation.

Ivan Shutov warns the driver to slow down on the pockmarked road. His team is making its way around potholes, toward the...

When Romanians plug their electronic devices into their wall sockets for electricity, they plug into one of the murkiest...

The National Anti-Corruption Directorate has announced the start of a criminal investigation into the privatization of the...

Court records the Romanian Center for Investigative Journalism has obtained provide a window on how wealthy businessmen came...

Romania is one of the largest exporters of power in the Balkans, but many Romanians can't afford to pay their electricity...

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Like Montenegro, Serbia is far behind its neighbors in reforming its energy sector.

Romania has the largest power sector in southeast Europe, and electricity privatization is one of the government's biggest...

Montenegro is far behind its neighbors in building an energy sector.

Macedonia privatized its power company, ElektroStopanstvo na Makedonija (ESM), in March 2006 when it sold 90 percent of the...

In 2001, the Croatian Parliament passed major energy reform legislation.

Bulgaria has long been a regional power exporter to countries such as Greece, Serbia, Macedonia and Romania, thanks to its...

Coordination of the various BiH electricity regulators and markets is the country's biggest challenge when it comes to the...

An unreliable power supply has been a major block to economic development in Albania.