In the coming years, over EUR 15 billion of planned investments in production energy capacities, transmission and distribution network

The priority investment plan is under wraps, and will soon be presented to the Government of Serbia. It will be a sort of roadmap for investments in energy infrastructure. According to the first indicators, in the coming years we expect investments of over EUR 15 billion, most of which will be in production capacities, transmission and distribution networks, the Assistant Minister of Mining and Energy for Power Engineering, Milan Aleksic said at the ceremonial opening of the 36th "CIGRE Serbia 2023", according to the website of the Ministry of Mining and Energy.

Aleksic mentioned that the energy transition is one of our principal goals, through which we want to encourage a greater participation of RES in the energy mix in order to reduce emissions of harmful gases.

- That process is not a matter of our obligations towards the European Union, the Energy Community or the Paris Agreement, but rather a question of our future - he said and added that the recently adopted amendments to the Law on the Use of RES, which will allow us to obtain new "green megawatts" and enable their sustainable integration into the system.

- This resolves the issue of a large number of requests for the connection of new solar and wind power plants, whose required capacity for connection has increased from 4.8 GW to 20 GW in the previous two years - Aleksic pointed out.

The minister's assistant reiterated that the construction of the Kostolac B3 thermal power plant, the first large production capacity after several decades, is nearing completion, that work is being wrapped on the construction of the wind farm in Kostolac, as well as on the development of a large project in solar energy.

Aleksic pointed out that the construction of the Trans-Balkan Corridor is underway. The Corridor will connect the power systems of Serbia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Montenegro, improve the transmission system and enable a more significant integration of RES.

According to Aleksic, projects on the automation of the medium-voltage distribution network and the introduction of smart meters are crucial, and in the next few years they will make the power system more stable, more efficient and reduce losses.

Vlada Republike Srbije

Ministarstvo rudarstva i energetike Republike Srbije

Milan Aleksic

investments in the transmission system

investments in production capacities

investments in the distribution network

investments in the transmission network

CIGRE Serbia 2023

Law on the Use of RES

renewable energy sources

construction of the Kostolac B3 thermal power plant

Kostolac B3 thermal power plant

construction of the Kostolac wind farm

wind farm Kostolac

construction of the Trans-Balkan Corridor

Trans-Balkan Corridor