Djedovic: Aiming at Financially and Socially Sustainable Green Transition

At the moment, the share of renewable energy sources in the energy mix of Serbia is 26% in the consumption, and 400 new megawatts is planned, said the minister of mining and energy of Serbia, Dubravka Djedovic, and added that the regulatory framework was being improved so that the power grid would be able to take up to eight times more than the current capacity in the medium term.

As Djedovic said during her presentation at the “Green Transition” conference, green transition is a permanent orientation of Serbia. She added that all the necessary measures were being taken for the transition toward clean energy to be financially and socially sustainable and fair, it is said on the website of the Government of Serbia.

The minister said that the priority projects which should enable the sustainable use of new capacities of renewable sources of a greater power were primarily reversible hydro power plants Djerdap 3 and Bistrica, but also a quicker realization of the planned projects of Elektroprivreda Srbije (EPS) which pertain to hydro power plants, wind and solar power plants.

According to her, we mustn’t forget green hydrogen either, as a great potential and energy source of the future, which is even now recognized by law as a renewable energy source.

Djedovic pointed out that one of the important questions was also whether the investors who use sun and wind would contribute to having that electrical energy be of use to the citizens and the economy or be oriented to exporting the whole production.

On that occasion, the minister expressed a conviction that a model which is in the best interest of the citizens, while also being sustainable for the investors, would be found and added that the use of geothermal energy was in its initial phase and that it was very modest compared to the potential and the resources and that, consequently, one of the focuses in the coming period would be placed precisely on that issue.

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Ministarstvo rudarstva i energetike Republike Srbije

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Dubravka Đedović

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Đerdap 3

reversible hydro power plant Đerdap 3

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reversible hydro power plant Bistrica

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