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This year, Elektroprivreda Srbije
will significantly green up its production power, and the new 76 megawatts from
wind and solar are proof of commitment to investments in renewable energy
sources, said the Minister of Mining and Energy Dubravka Djedović Handanović
today.
- EPS is committed to reaching 45
percent of green energy in Serbia by 2030, which is why numerous development
projects are being initiated. An important goal was achieved in April, when the
last, 20th wind turbine of the first EPS wind farm was installed. At the same
time, the installation of solar panels in the Solar Power Plant Petka was
completed. Both power plants will be on the grid this year - the Minister
said.
Intensive works are ongoing at the
construction site of the Wind Farm Kostolac at all four locations: Drmno,
Petka, Ćirikovac and Klenovnik.
- A substation, a switchyard and an
internal cable network are under construction - said Dušan Živković, General
Manager of Elektroprivreda Srbije. - What makes these projects different from
all other RES is that the solar power plant and wind farm are being built on
the site of the exhausted open-cast mines and landfills of the Thermal Power Plant
and Open-Cast Mines Kostolac. In this way, we use the potential of these sites
in a sustainable and efficient way and create new energy.
The Solar Power Plant Petka is
being built on the outdoor landfill Petka and occupies an area of about 15
hectares. The installed capacity is 9.75 megawatts, and the planned annual
production is 13.7 gigawatt-hours.
The Wind Farm Kostolac will have a
capacity of 66 megawatts, and the planned annual production is 187 million
kilowatt-hours, which is sufficient to supply green electricity to about 30,000
households. The project is financed from a loan taken from the German
development bank KfW in the amount of EUR 110 million, and EPS has been
approved an additional grant in the amount of EUR 30 million from the European
Union, i.e. the Western Balkans Investment Framework (WBIF).
