The Power Brokers

Published: August 24th, 2007

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Reporters from Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria and Romania looked at the regional energy market and energy traders. What they found was a murky, closed system that is not open to fair trade and where the state companies are giving away their advantage to well-connected energy traders.

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Stories

The Power Brokers

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

Athens Process

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

Anatomy of a Blackout

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

Bulgaria Losing Power

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

The World Behind the Plug

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

A Town Without Light

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

About the Project

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Countries

Serbia

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

Romania

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

Montenegro

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

Macedonia

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

Croatia

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

Bulgaria

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

Bosnia-Herzegovina

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

Albania

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