Elektroprivreda Srbije
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{{#badges: CoalSwarm|Template:Navbar-Serbiacoal}}The Elektroprivreda Srbije (EPS) is Serbia's state-run power utility. EPS also owns and operates coal mines which supply its power stations. 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.[1]
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Coal-fired power stations
Existing coal-fired power stations
EPS owns and operates, via subsidiaries, the following coal-fired power stations:
- TPP Nikola Tesla Power Plant, a 2,662 MW coal-fired power station located approximately 40 kilometers upstream from Belgrade, near the town of Obrenova. By far the largest coal plant in Serbia, the complex provides approximately 47 percent of the total capacity of the electric power system of Serbia. The complex and two of its plants are named in honor of Nikola Tesla, a Serbian electrical engineer and inventor.[2]
- TPP Kolubara Power Plant, a 245 megawatt coal which is located in the village Veliki Crljeni;[3] 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.[4]
- 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.[5]
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. [6]
On June 30, 2011, Serbia's state-run power utility Elektroprivreda Srbije (EPS) and Italy's Edison signed a preliminary deal under which Edison would 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.[7]
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.[7]
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.[8]
EPS states that the coal mines associated with power stations in Serbia have a "potential annual production of around 38 million tons."[9]
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.[10]
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.[11]
Coal expansion deals with China
In 2009, China president Hu Jintao and Serbia president Boris Tadic signed a 15-year agreement for China to invest $1.25 billion in Serbia’s infrastructure and energy. OPM Kostolac, a unit of Serbian power monopoly Elektroprivreda Srbije, plans to revitalize two 350-megawatt power blocs and build a desulphurization unit, rail tracks and a new port on the Danube river, the first phase of a billion-dollar project that would also lead to the construction of a new power bloc and expansion of its coal mines. Two existing plants at the TPP Kostolac Power Plant, with respective installed capacity of 100 megawatts and 200 megawatts, will be decommissioned in 2017 and 2024 and replaced with the new one. Kostolac currently relies on the Drmno mine, which has around 350 million tons of remaining coal reserves, and is considering acquiring the nearby Dubravica field, which contains around 400 million tons of recoverable coal reserves out of an estimated deposit of 1 billion tons.[12]
The new power bloc is expected to produce 2.5 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity a year based on 7,000 operating hours, compared with the total national output of 35 billion kilowatt-hours. The first phase will take 30 months to complete. The second phase, to start in 2014, will be worth around $700 million and involves a new 350-megawatt bloc with a lifespan through 2060 and the expansion of the Drmno mine coal deposit field. The new bloc should start generating power between 2014 and 2020.[12]
On October 20, 2011, Serbia's power utility Elektroprivreda Srbije (EPS) said it had signed a preliminary deal with a Chinese consortium to jointly build a 744 megawatt coal-fired unit at an estimated cost of more than 2 billion euros ($2.7 billion). Under the deal, a consortium that includes China Environmental Energy Holdings and Shenzhen Energy, and EPS, will form a joint venture for the future project in the southwestern town of Obrenovac, part of its TPP Nikola Tesla Power Plant power complex. An upgrade of the Radeljevo coal mine will feed the plant. The deal is the latest in a series of energy projects agreed over the past two years with China, along with Russia, when Serbia faced international isolation in the 1990s.[13]
On November 1, 2011, Bloomberg reported that Kostolac expects the Export-Import Bank of China to approve a $344 million loan soon to finance coal plant upgrades in 2012. Kostolac also wants to win a two-year accord with Germany’s Vattenfall Europe AG to provide consultancy services and help Kostolac improve open-pit operations.[12]
Contact details
Website: http://www.eps.rs/english.htm
Articles and Resources
Sources
- ↑ Elektroprivreda Srbije, "About Us: Basic Data", EPS website, accessed July 2011.
- ↑ "Facilities for electric power generation" Elektroprivreda Srbije website, accessed July 2011.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Eurocoal, "Serbia", Eurocoal website, accessed July 2011.
- ↑ Elektroprivreda Srbije, "Facilities for electric power generation: Thermal Power Plants", Elektroprivreda Srbije website, accessed July 2011.
- ↑ Misha Savic, "Edison Agrees With Serbian EPS to Complete Kolubara B Plant", Bloomberg, June 30, 2011.
- ↑ Jump up to: 7.0 7.1 "Serbia EPS, Italy Edison in 750 MW coal-fired project" Reuters, June 30, 2011.
- ↑ Elektroprivreda Srbije, "About Us: Basic Data: Facilities for coal production, processing and transport ", Elektroprivreda Srbije website, accessed July 2011.
- ↑ Elektroprivreda Srbije, "About Us: Basic Data", Elektroprivreda Srbije website, accessed July 2011.
- ↑ Elektroprivreda Srbije, "About Us: Basic Data: Economic Assosiation for Coal Production, processing and Transport MB Kolubara plc", Elektroprivreda Srbije website, accessed July 2011.
- ↑ Elektroprivreda Srbije, "About Us: Basic Data: Facilities for coal production, processing and transport OPM "Kostolac"", Elektroprivreda Srbije website, accessed July 2011.
- ↑ Jump up to: 12.0 12.1 12.2 Gordana Filipovic, "Serbian Mine Sees Chinese, Vattenfall Agreements for Upgrades" Bloomberg, Nov 1, 2011.
- ↑ Maja Zuvela, "Serbia, China sign deal for coal plant, mine" Reuters, Oct. 20, 2011.
