There are a little less than three weeks left until the biggest event in cooling, ventilation and airconditioning. Under the same roof, in the Kolovare Hotel in Zadar on 19 - 21 April two conferences will be held: the 8th Klima-forum and the 26th Conference on Heating, Cooling and Airconditioning INTER-KLIMA. While the professional and scientific lecturers are going to be held on 20 and 21 April, at numerous exhibition spaces, that will be available for broader public from the afternoon of 19 April to the afternoon of 21 April, the leading domestic and international manufacturers of refrigeration and air conditioning devices, equipment and systems will present new solutions, products, services and achievements.

But that's not all. On the first day of the conferences, on 20 April, a new edition of EM Literature will be presented. It is about the book HLAĐENJE I KLIMATIZACIJA (i.e. REFRIGERATION AND AIRCONDITIONING), the life work of one of the doyens of refrigeration and airconditioning technology in Croatia and beyond, prof. dr. sc. Orest Fabris. The book provides the most important thermodynamic basics and explains the phenomena, processes and laws that appear in cooling and airconditioning technology. Special attention is given to practical and specific solutions, and corresponding equations, expressions and numerical data are given along with them. The book also includes the latest changes related to the protection of the ozone layer, rational use of energy and some completely new achievements and expected changes in the future. At the end, the book is supplemented with a large number of solved tasks and appendices in the form of tables, diagrams, etc. In a word - a work that should be owned by anyone who deals with cooling, ventilation and air conditioning in any way.

The first number of EGE Magazine this year was also an anniversary. Specifically, the first issue of the Magazine in this year came out of the printing house just a few days after exactly 30 years since the first issue of the Magazine has been published. It should be reminded: it was on 4 March 1993.

The new issue of the EGE Magazine is therefore thematically dedicated to this important anniversary, but this is not the only reason for the celebration this year: the 150. issue of the Magazine will be published in the fall. In addition to the anniversary, the Magazine also went through a certain design refreshment.

But this is not the only novelty related to the Magazine. Recently, the database of the articles published in the past 20 years of the Magazine (for technical reasons it was not possible for database to cover all 30 years) is again available on the Magazine webpage. In doing so, it is possible to search according to the words in the title, topics, authors, or by the type of text. Fast and easy.

Last year, gas consumption in Croatia was reduced by as much as 17,4% compared to 2021, which is the biggest drop in the past decade. At the same time, thanks to the liquefied natural gas terminal, Croatia has turned from a major gas importer into an exporter. Investments in the expansion of terminal capacity will therefore continue in the coming years, as the existing ones are leased until 2030. The price of gas for households and other protected categories will not be increased for some time, and the plan is to establish a gas exchange that should respond to an increasing number of problems.

These were some of the main highlights from the presentation related to the state of the gas market at the 22nd Plinarski forum (i.e. Forum on Gas), which gathered numerous participants from the gas industry and technology and all related fields.

As part of the Forum, a round table was held on the topic of the future of gas implementation. Thus, it was pointed out that gases should not be divided according to origin and that gas networks can and should be ready to receive decarbonized gases - hydrogen and biomethane. Namely, regardless of the direction and goals of the energy transition, i.e. energy decarbonization, one should take into account the importance of the existing gas infrastructure, in which a huge amount of money has been invested, and also ask oneself who will bear the costs of replacing natural gas with other energy sources in the end. At the same time, everyone dealing with biogas is troubled by the fact that they are not recognized for the huge increase in input costs, while the selling price of the electricity they produce is limited. This could ultimately jeopardize the further production of biogas. When it comes to carbon dioxide, which is also a gas, it was announced that a contract will soon be signed for its disposal in suitable geological formations in Slavonia. In any case, in gas technology and the gas industry, we need to prepare for the future already now.

The round anniversary of thirty years of publication of the EGE magazine, which has celebrared just these days, is not the only fresh 'jubilee' in the ENERGETIKA MARKETING company. Our dear colleague Zvjezdana Šušnić, head of our Data Centre, after a full 30 years of service in our company and a total of 40 years of service, is retiring. The continuously and carefully updated base of our subscribers and participants at conferences is her life's work and forms the very foundation of our successful business today and in the future.

Anyone who has ever bought a subscription to EGE magazine or one of our books and handbooks - and we had dozens of them - has met our Zvjezdana. Because every one of our published issues passed through her diligent hands.

Zvjezdana remembers very well the beginnings of our company, the days when work was done 'on foot', on devices that we have almost forgotten, typewriters and telefaxes. There was a lot of work, but there was no lack of good banter either. We will fondly remember Zvjezdana from the many 'team building' in nature, but also the fierce parties at our conferences, unforgettable gatherings all over Croatia - in Dubrovnik, Zadar, Rovinj, Umag...

We thank Zvjezdana for the dedicated work of all past decades, collegiality and cheerfulness that we will miss. At the same time, we would like to welcome her successor, new colleague Bojana Ivanković, also with extensive experience working with databases.

It was the year 93... when calamities came to our Croatia... (as the popular Croatian song would say). It was the time when the Croatian War of Independece was raging in full swing, but also the time of the first years of the young state and the new, democratic order. At the same time, it was the era when new social and economic relations began, the era of newly flourishing entrepreneurship.

At that time, one entrepreneurial project started, from which, among other things, a rich publishing business, the organization of numerous conferences and the portal www.energetika-net.com were later born. Namely, it was at that time that the EGE magazine was launched, the first issue of which was published exactly 30 years ago, on March 4, 1993, and was presented to professionals and the general public with an appropriate ceremony at the (then) Intercontinental Hotel in Zagreb.

Today, 30 years later, much has changed and much is different now (although, unfortunately, war is raging in Europe again). However, the EGE magazine is still there and five times a year brings reliable and accurate information from energy, economy, ecology and ethics (hence the name, i.e. the acronym in Croatian!) and all related professions and fields.