EPS to procure equipment totaling EUR 4, 88 m for Tamnava-Zapadno poljeopen pit mine

The Electric Power Industry of Serbia has signed today with ABB the contract on procurement of hardware and software for the system of coal quality management at the open pit mine "Tamnava-Zapadno polje". The contract totaling EUR 4,88 m which is a part of the "Energy efficiency through environmental system for coal quality management", was signed at the Mine Basin Kolubara Aleksandar Obradovic, head of head of sales.

The project is funded through the loan of the German developmental bank(KfW) and totals EUR 65 m and will affect improvement of environmental conditions in Serbia. Benefits of the coal quality management system at the pit mines which suffered the biggest damage in last year’s floods, will be seen through reduced losses in coal excavation and higher exploitation of findings, balanced coal quality and decrease of hazardous gasses emission from the electric power plants.

Implementation of the environmental coal quality management system is a part of a wider project of environmental protection development project at the Mine Basin Kolubara, totaling EUR 181 m. Apart from KfW bank, the project is funded from the loan of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) totaling EUR 80 m, grants of the Government of Germany totals EUR 9 m while EPS provides EUR 27 m.

It will result in hazardous gasses emission reduction as well as savings of coal and liquid fuel. Cumulative annual savings at the level of coal and energy production have been estimated at app. EUR 26 m.