The
first equipment for the wind farm "Kostolac", the first wind farm project
of Elektroprivreda Srbije, arrived just today, we started the construction of
the solar power plant "Petka" and with the 1 gigawatt of solar
self-balancing power plants project and with the future pumped-storage
hydropower plant "Bistrica", EPS is preparing for the future, for a
different production portfolio, sustainable business, with essential security
of supply – said Dušan Živković, Acting Director of EPS, at the Belgrade Energy
Forum during the panel on accelerating the way toward the decarbonization of
the region's electric power industry.
He
pointed out that the project of the future pumped-storage hydropower plant "Bistrica",
with a capacity of 628 MW, was one of the strategic projects without which
there was no greater participation of RES in the coming decades. Živković also
stressed that it was already clear that the circular economy and artificial
intelligence would be topics that, in addition to decarbonization, would mark
the time ahead and have the greatest impact on the future of the energy sector.
- Decarbonizing
and replacing fossil fuel production is a particular challenge for energy, but
these three areas will have a key impact not only on the energy sector, but
also on all other fields. If in the last century we replaced the candle and the
ingle with a light bulb, now we are replacing them with solar panels and heat
pumps – Živković said.
