Elektroprivreda Srbije
Serbia’s coal plant Kostolac B3 to come online in September 2023
07 October 2022 - Head of the Kostolac B3 project Željko Lazović said Serbia's power utility EPS would put the coal power unit into operation next September
Serbia has three key development areas in green electricity sector
20 September 2022 - Balkan Green News Editor Branislava Jovičić says the key areas are private investments, state-owned utility EPS and citizens and companies with PV systems for own consumption
Serbia doesn’t have enough coal for winter, trade unionist from EPS warns
15 August 2022 - Power production in Serbia is at a critical point and the winter supply is uncertain, trade unionist Dragoslav Ljubičić claims
Drought lowers hydropower plant output in Serbia, Europe
10 August 2022 - The water flow in Serbia's hydropower system dropped by a half, increasing the need for electricity imports, but the situation is similar across Europe
No giving up on the Green Agenda
09 July 2022 - Zorana Mihajlović: The developments in the past year and a half have made a well-known maxim relevant again: energy is the most expensive when you lack it
Statement of the Day, Vučić: It’s bald-faced lie that we are selling EPS
15 June 2022 - President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić denied media reports that state-owned power utility Elektroprivreda Srbije (EPS) is up for sale
WB-6 countries struggling to secure electricity production in their old coal power plants
31 May 2022 - It's going to be a long winter in several Western Balkan countries as old coal-fired power plants are unreliable and lignite is scarce
Serbia to protect vulnerable households from jump in energy prices
10 May 2022 - Serbia will adopt a decree to help 200.000 households to pay electricity bills and 50.000 will be able to get aid for heat costs, Minister Zorana Mihajlović said
Serbia’s EPS delaying, reconsidering reconstruction of coal plant units
27 April 2022 - EPS said it is reconsidering the plan to reconstruct coal plant units TENT A1 and A2 and that it intends to start works on TENT B2 only in 2025
Miroslav Tomašević appointed as acting CEO of Serbia’s power utility EPS
03 March 2022 - Miroslav Tomašević replaced Milorad Grčić as the acting director of Serbia's state-owned coal and electricity producer EPS, local media learned
Serbian companies to have more active role on electricity market in the coming years – conference
25 February 2022 - New laws for electricity and renewables made investments easier and firms will have a more active role, so market participants need to adapt step by step, experts said
International institutions urge Serbia not to delay implementation of renewable energy law
19 January 2022 - Reacting to demands from EMS and EPS, international institutions said altering the renewable energy law in Serbia could disappoint investors
Acting CEO of Serbia’s power utility EPS quits after several major outages
12 January 2022 - Acting director of EPS Milorad Grčić resigned after five outages and fires in Serbia's coal power industry in the past month
Electricity prices for businesses in Serbia frozen for another month
30 November 2021 - The Serbian government has extended its decision from the end of October, when it caped prices for November
Serbia won’t cap electricity prices in response to energy crisis – prime minister
18 October 2021 - Prime Minister Ana Brnabić has said the government would not limit the prices of electricity, which the business sector requested.
Energy transition is inevitable, but opposition is very strong
01 October 2021 - Implementation of the energy transition in Serbia and the region is inevitable, and it is also the stance of those who do not believe in climate change and are against the closure of coal-fired power plants.