Two mini hydro projects in southeast Serbia need no impact assessment
The Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection of Serbia said there is no need for environmental impact assessments for small hydropower plants Topli Dol 1 and Selište. The first system should be installed on Rekitska river within the Stara planina nature park in the municipality of Pirot in the country’s southeast. The expected capacity is […]
Power sector reform financed with EUR 200 million
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development said it is supporting a comprehensive reform programme for the power sector in Serbia by extending a EUR 200 million restructuring line to Electric Power Industry of Serbia (EPS), a state-owned utility that generates, distributes and supplies electricity. The sovereign-guaranteed loan will help the company restructure its balance sheet and […]
Energy Cities Project Serbia
Donor: Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) Country of implementation: Serbia Program Manager: Priska Depnering – Nydegger Project status: approved at SECO, partner project agreements to be signed, project implementation from 2016 Partners: Ministry of Energy and Mining, Government Office for Reconstruction and Flood Relief, Municipality of Vrbas, Municipality of Paraćin, City of Uzice, […]
Pirot upgrades energy efficiency assisted by GIZ
First step towards the improvement of energy efficiency is the analysis of the residential buildings and defining which measures are needed. Head of the Municipality of Pirot Vladan Vasić signed a memorandum of understanding with Renate Schindlbeck, team leader of GIZ’s project Energy Efficiency in Buildings. The document marked the beginning of cooperation towards the […]
Belgrade adopts plan for adaptation to climate change
The assembly of Serbia’s capital city approved the Assessment of Vulnerability to Climate Change and the Action Plan for Adaptation. Nataša Đokić, assistant to the environment secretary of Belgrade, said the document is strategic, and a first step for the establishment of a system for future events, the city’s official website reported. „Climate change is […]
MK-Fintel’s wind turbines arrive in Kula
After they were unloaded from barges in Apatin shipyard on the Danube in Serbia’s northwest, parts of three wind generators were transported 40 kilometres further to the construction site in the municipality of Kula, Večernje novosti newspaper’s portal said. Preparation works have been finished, according to MK-Fintel Wind a. d., the venture company which is […]
Study underway for Kostolac wind power plant
National power producer EPS published an invitation on October 12 for offers for a feasibility study with a concept design for a future wind power plant at the coal mining complex of Kostolac, 90 kilometres east of Belgrade. The public procurement project JN 1000-0041-2015 is for a wind park study for possible locations of Drmno, […]
Energy efficiency enables sustainable development
Compared to the countries in the region, Serbia is ranked the second regarding the consumption of electricity per capita, and the first regarding the emission of carbon dioxide, according to Arne Gooss, director of KfW bank in Serbia. Speaking at an international conference on energy efficiency in public and private sector on October 15, he […]