Block B1 at TPP Nikola Tesla to Deliver Electricity Following Revitalization from November 25

The president of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, announced today while visiting the works on the revitalization of Block 21 at the Thermal Power Plant Nikola Tesla B (TENT B) in Obrenovac, that, on November 25, the delivery of electricity to the power system would begin from this block.

The works, the first ones on that block after 40 years of operations, are worth EUR 90 million. They began in May 2021, and the total power of the block is 650 MW.

Vucic said that, due to the repair of that block, Serbia had needed to import electricity and that a part had needed to be compensated by importing gas. At the same time, he added that the furnaces at Block B1 would be reignited on November 18 and that the delivery of electricity to the network should begin on November 25.

As he added, Serbia now gets 68% of power from coal, which will need to lower in the upcoming period and new capacities will also need to be built, which will produce power from renewable sources.

– We will build facilities running on RES, but until then we have to have enough power and gas. We will see whether Serbia will have enough money in the next 10 or 15 years for nuclear energy as well, since we will spend more and more power and gas – said Vucic, as announced by his press service.

He pointed out that, if the negotiations in Moscow with the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, scheduled for November 25, are successful, the energy security of Serbia will be secured.

Also, Vucic pointed to the further engagement in the field of producing energy from renewable sources.

– We will also have to work on making renewable energy sources, but also the base ones, we will work on solar and wind power, but you always need what’s solid and secure, something you can count on at any moment – Vucic said and added that the citizens could count on sufficient amounts of power, adds the announcement of the president’s press service, and the president further concludes that there will be efforts to reduce the share of coal in the production of electric energy in the future period.

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