Ten Towns and Municipalities to Switch to Using Green Energy – New Project of Ministry of Mining and Energy Worth EUR 40.5 Million

By switching to the use of renewable energy sources (RES), through the new project of the Ministry of Mining and Energy worth EUR 40.5 million, 10 towns and municipalities in Serbia will improve their systems of central heating and environmental protection.

Within the Project of Renewable Energy Sources in Serbia, which is carried out with the financial support of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the Republic of Austria and the Swiss Confederation, 10 local self-government units have been selected for taking part in the program: Becej, Bogatic, Kragujevac, Kraljevo, Krusevac, Nis, Novi Pazar, Pancevo, Paracin and Vrsac.

The estimated value of Phase 1 is EUR 40.5 million, and the signing of financial agreements is expected soon, as announced by the Ministry of Mining and Energy.

– With this project, we are continuing the implementation of renewable energy sources in the sector of central heating, which we successfully started by building biomass heating plants, three of which were put into operation, whereas the works on the fourth one are to begin soon. The new investments will enable citizens to have reliable and quality heating and the heating plants to function more efficiently, to use green energy and to at the same time preserve the environment – stated the minister of mining and energy of Serbia, Dubravka Djedovic.

She added that the project would finance green technologies in central heating systems, primarily heat pumps, solar collectors, geothermal energy, as well as the automation of heating substations, so that the planned projects would achieve maximum efficiency.

As said, after the realized investments, the heating plants in the 10 selected local self-governments will produce around 115 GWh of heating energy from RES, and the total quantity of the heating energy produced from RES in Serbia will increase from the current 95 GWh to 210 GWh.

The consumption of primary energy will reduce by an additional 61 GWh through the implementation of energy efficiency measures, and the project will also contribute to improving environmental protection, through reducing the annual emission of CO2 by 14,600 tons.

Ministarstvo rudarstva i energetike Republike Srbije

EBRD Evropska banka za obnovu i razvoj Beograd

Ministry of Mining and Energy

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

EBRD

Dubravka Djedovic

central heating

construction of biomass heating plants

biomass heating plants

production of heating energy from renewable sources