North Macedonia, Dec. 22 -- The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing a sovereign-guaranteed loan of up to €37 million to Elektrani na Severna Makedonija (ESM), the state-owned electricity generation utility of North Macedonia, to finance the development, construction and operation of a 134 MWdc solar power plant at the site of an exhausted coal mine in Bitola. The loan will be provided alongside a €50 million sovereign-guaranteed loan from German development bank KfW, marking the first joint financing and implementation of a project by the EBRD and KfW.The Bitola 3 Solar Power Plant is a flagship project under the Just Energy Transition Investment Platform (JETIP), launched by North Macedonia at C...