July 6, 2026 — The Western Balkans is rewiring how it makes and moves electricity. Wind and solar are coming online, national grids are growing more interconnected, and power is flowing in ways the existing infrastructure was never built to handle. Adding renewables is not just a matter of capacity. It changes how the whole system behaves, and a disturbance in one country can reach its neighbors in seconds.
That is where E3 International and our partner SEL come in. SEL brings decades of engineering in protection, automation, and control: real-time wide-area monitoring, automated schemes that respond to grid events within milliseconds, and modern, IEC 61850-based substations. We bring project development, financing expertise, and a working understanding of how utilities in this region operate and what their regulators require.
We have already done this together. In Tunisia, E3I and SEL completed and tested a smart-grid system for the national utility, and in the Western Balkans we are on the ground helping advance investment-ready energy projects across the region.
The lesson from this work is simple: do not wait for instability to appear before you build for it. Resilient grids come from pairing strong infrastructure with smart technology and the local knowledge to apply it well. That is exactly what we bring.
We are here, we know the terrain, and we are ready for what the region builds next.
Read more in our recent CorD Magazine interview with SEL’s Diego Rodas. Read the interview →