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EPS owns and operates three coal-fired power stations. These are the:<ref>Elektroprivreda Srbije, [http://www.eps.rs/onama/facilitiescoal.htm "About Us; Basic data"], Elektroprivreda Srbije website, accessed July 2011.</ref>
 
EPS owns and operates three coal-fired power stations. These are the:<ref>Elektroprivreda Srbije, [http://www.eps.rs/onama/facilitiescoal.htm "About Us; Basic data"], Elektroprivreda Srbije website, accessed July 2011.</ref>
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* [[TPP Nikola Tesla Power Plant]] with an existing capacity of 3,300 MW.<ref>[http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/30/serbia-edison-energy-idUSLDE75T0SY20110630 "Serbia EPS, Italy Edison in 750 MW coal-fired project"] Reuters, June 30, 2011.</ref> The plant is the largest coal plant in Serbia, providing 47 percent of the total capacity of the country's electric power system.<ref name=eps>[http://www.eps.rs/onama/tpp_ntesla.htm "Facilities for electric power generation"] Elektroprivreda Srbije website, accessed July 2011.</ref>
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* [[TPP Nikola Tesla Power Plant]] with an existing capacity of 2,662 MW.<ref>[http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/30/serbia-edison-energy-idUSLDE75T0SY20110630 "Serbia EPS, Italy Edison in 750 MW coal-fired project"] Reuters, June 30, 2011.</ref> The plant is the largest coal plant in Serbia, providing 47 percent of the total capacity of the country's electric power system.<ref name=eps>[http://www.eps.rs/onama/tpp_ntesla.htm "Facilities for electric power generation"] Elektroprivreda Srbije website, accessed July 2011.</ref>
 
* [[TPP Kolubara Power Plant]], a 245 megawatt coal which is located in the village Veliki Crljeni;<ref>Elektroprivreda Srbije, [http://www.eps.rs/onama/tpp_kolubara.htm "Facilities for electric power generation: Facilities for electric power generation: Thermal Power Plants Nikola Tesla - TPP "Kolubara" plc"], Elektroprivreda Srbije website, accessed July 2011.</ref>  and
 
* [[TPP Kolubara Power Plant]], a 245 megawatt coal which is located in the village Veliki Crljeni;<ref>Elektroprivreda Srbije, [http://www.eps.rs/onama/tpp_kolubara.htm "Facilities for electric power generation: Facilities for electric power generation: Thermal Power Plants Nikola Tesla - TPP "Kolubara" plc"], Elektroprivreda Srbije website, accessed July 2011.</ref>  and
 
* [[TPP Morava Power Plant]], a 108 megawatt lignite fired power station which is located on the right bank of the river Velika Morava near the town of Svilajnac.<ref>Eurocoal, [http://www.euracoal.org/pages/layout1sp.php?idpage=78 "Serbia"], Eurocoal website, accessed July 2011.</ref>
 
* [[TPP Morava Power Plant]], a 108 megawatt lignite fired power station which is located on the right bank of the river Velika Morava near the town of Svilajnac.<ref>Eurocoal, [http://www.euracoal.org/pages/layout1sp.php?idpage=78 "Serbia"], Eurocoal website, accessed July 2011.</ref>

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{{#badges: CoalSwarm|Template:Navbar-Serbiacoal}} Most of the energy in Serbia comes from coal or hydroelectric dams. Energy consumption is expected to exceed energy production by 2012 and Elektroprivreda Srbije (EPS), Serbia's largest energy producer, is looking to add 1400 MW of coal-fired power, as well as develop Đerdap III, a hydroelectric dam with approximately 2.4 gigawatts of power.[1]

According to its website EPS owns and operates power stations with a total installed capacity of of 8,359 megawatts (MW). Of this, 5,171 MW is from lignite-fired thermal power plants, 353 from gas and liquid fuel-fired combined heat and power plants and 2,835 from hydro power plants. EPS also operates three power plants with a total capacity 461 MW which it does not own.[2]

Coal-fired power stations

Existing coal power plants

EPS owns and operates three coal-fired power stations. These are the:[3]

  • TPP Nikola Tesla Power Plant with an existing capacity of 2,662 MW.[4] The plant is the largest coal plant in Serbia, providing 47 percent of the total capacity of the country's electric power system.[5]
  • TPP Kolubara Power Plant, a 245 megawatt coal which is located in the village Veliki Crljeni;[6] and
  • TPP Morava Power Plant, a 108 megawatt lignite fired power station which is located on the right bank of the river Velika Morava near the town of Svilajnac.[7]
  • the TPP Kostolac Power Plant, which comprises the 640 megawatt TPP Kostolac A plant and the 281 megawatt TPP Kostolac B. The TPP Kostolac A plant also produces heating energy for heating the cities of Kostolac and Pozarevac.[8]

Proposed coal-fired power station

EPS is also proposing to build the Kolubara B power station, 750 megawatts station comprising two 325 MW generating units. [9]

On June 30, 2011, EPS and Italy's Edison signed a preliminary deal to jointly develop two coal-fired units in Serbia generating a combined 750 megawatts. Edison pledged to build the units, which would be EPS' first new coal-fired capacity in 20 years. A feasibility study is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2012. After that the two utilities will set up a joint venture. They gave no estimation of the cost.[10] The joint venture is for the Kolubara B power station.[11]

Under the proposal, Edison offered EPS a 36.4 percent stake in the new company in which EPS had already invested 300 million euros ($424.8 million) back in 1988 until putting the construction on hold due to lack of funds. EPS issued a tender for the construction of 750 MW and 650 MW coal-fired power plants in 2009, part of its Nikola Tesla (TNT) coal-fired power complex with an existing capacity of 3,300 MW. It had earlier put the construction cost of both plants at around 1.6 billion euros ($2.3 billion). No bidder has expressed interest in building the 650 MW capacity and EPS earlier said it might announce a new tender for the unit.[10]

Coal mines

The two lignite mining fields in Serbia are in the Kolubara and Kostolac basins. The open cut mines in the Kolubara basin produce approximately three-quarters of the lignite in Serbia and supply EPS's TPP Kolubara Power Plant, TPP Nikola Tesla Power Plant and the TPP Morava Power Plant. Mines in the Kostolac basin supply the TPP Kostolac Power Plant.[12]

EPS states that the coal mines associated with power stations in Serbia have a "potential annual production of around 38 million tons."[13]

An EPS subsidiary, MB Kolubara plc, operates four coal mines -- the Polje B mine, the Polje D mine, the Tamnava Istok mine and the Tamnava Zapad mine.[14]

Another EPS subsidiary, OPM Kostolac, currently three open-pit mines -- the Drmno mine, the Cirikovac mine and the Klenovnik mine -- which supply the Kostolac A and B power plants.[15]

Articles and Resources

Sources

  1. ↑ Đerdap III. Večernje novosti (25 January 2009). Retrieved on 28 April 2010.
  2. ↑ Elektroprivreda Srbije, "About Us: Basic Data", EPS website, accessed July 2011.
  3. ↑ Elektroprivreda Srbije, "About Us; Basic data", Elektroprivreda Srbije website, accessed July 2011.
  4. ↑ "Serbia EPS, Italy Edison in 750 MW coal-fired project" Reuters, June 30, 2011.
  5. ↑ "Facilities for electric power generation" Elektroprivreda Srbije website, accessed July 2011.
  6. ↑ Elektroprivreda Srbije, "Facilities for electric power generation: Facilities for electric power generation: Thermal Power Plants Nikola Tesla - TPP "Kolubara" plc", Elektroprivreda Srbije website, accessed July 2011.
  7. ↑ Eurocoal, "Serbia", Eurocoal website, accessed July 2011.
  8. ↑ Elektroprivreda Srbije, "Facilities for electric power generation: Thermal Power Plants", Elektroprivreda Srbije website, accessed July 2011.
  9. ↑ Misha Savic, "Edison Agrees With Serbian EPS to Complete Kolubara B Plant", Bloomberg, June 30, 2011.
  10. ↑ Jump up to: 10.0 10.1 "Serbia EPS, Italy Edison in 750 MW coal-fired project", Reuters, June 30, 2011.
  11. ↑ Misha Savic, "Edison Agrees With Serbian EPS to Complete Kolubara B Plant", Bloomberg, June 30, 2011.
  12. ↑ Elektroprivreda Srbije, "About Us: Basic Data: Facilities for coal production, processing and transport ", Elektroprivreda Srbije website, accessed July 2011.
  13. ↑ Elektroprivreda Srbije, "About Us: Basic Data", Elektroprivreda Srbije website, accessed July 2011.
  14. ↑ Elektroprivreda Srbije, "About Us: Basic Data: Economic Assosiation for Coal Production, processing and Transport MB Kolubara plc", Elektroprivreda Srbije website, accessed July 2011.
  15. ↑ Elektroprivreda Srbije, "About Us: Basic Data: Facilities for coal production, processing and transport OPM "Kostolac"", Elektroprivreda Srbije website, accessed July 2011.

Related SourceWatch articles

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External Articles

Background information

  • Professor Bozo Kolonja (University of Belgrade University, Faculty of Mining and Geology), The Serbian Mining Industry, 18th Annual General Meeting, Belgrade, Serbia, June 23-27, 2007.
  • European Environment Agency, European Pollutant Emission Register. (This has a list of power stations and their current emissions).
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