Interview - Regulatory Setbacks May Spook Wind Power Developers Eyeing Bulgaria, Serbia

SOFIA (Bulgaria), March 16 (SeeNews) - U.S.-based Continental Wind Partners, which has a project portfolio spanning several Southeast European countries, fears regulatory setbacks could scare off wind power investors eyeing the potential of Bulgaria and Serbia while leaving projects there that have already broken ground dangling, senior company officials said. The project that Continental Wind Partners (CWP) is developing in Serbia will comprise of a 170 megawatt (MW) first stage to be executed in the municipality of Kovin with a second stage of 130 MW to be executed in the municipality of Panchevo, company chairman Mark Crandall told SeeNews in a recent conference call.