Western Balkans Energy Transition Dialogue

The Western Balkans Energy Transition Dialogue convenes energy ministries, regulators, transmission operators, and civil-society monitors from the six Western Balkans economies three times a year. The work focuses on three interconnected questions: how to retire lignite generation on a credible timeline, how to physically and commercially integrate national grids into the EU electricity market, and how to design just-transition packages that hold up to public scrutiny in mining regions.

Each session produces a short, named position paper. The first paper — published in September 2026 — covers coordinated capacity-payment rules and the conditions under which a single Western Balkans balancing area becomes feasible. Subsequent papers will address corporate PPAs, hydrogen readiness for industrial off-takers, and the labour-side architecture of transition packages.

The dialogue is deliberately small (capped at thirty named participants per session) and deliberately non-public during the drafting window. Final papers are public, named, and citable; the foundation publishes the participant roster of each session with the paper.