Bulgaria lags behind most of Europe when it comes to clean energy production. But new laws and a nascent democratic energy movement led by a tiny cooperative called Izgrei are pointing the way forward.
Several years ago in Belozem, a wisp of a village in south-central Bulgaria, two unlikely young energy pioneers set out on a mission: Even though it was not yet feasible according to Bulgarian law,
Bulgaria’s Radoslav Rosenov, top seed in the lightweight category at
the European Men’s Elite Boxing Championships in Armenian capital
Yerevan, suffered a shock defeat on the third and penultimate day of
preliminary competition.