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{{Stub}}{{#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.
==Coal-fired power stations=====Existing coal-fired power stations===
EPS owns and operates that [[TPP Nikola Tesla Power Plant]], a 3,300 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 and coal|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.<ref name=eps>[http://www.eps.rs/onama/tpp_ntesla.htm "Facilities for electric power generation"] Elektroprivreda Srbije website, accessed July 2011.</ref>
===Proposed coal-fired power station===
EPS is also proposing to build the [[Kolubara B power station]], 750 megawatts station comprising two 325 MR generating units. <ref>Misha Savic, [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-30/edison-agrees-with-serbian-eps-to-complete-kolubara-b-plant-1-.html "Edison Agrees With Serbian EPS to Complete Kolubara B Plant"], ''Bloomberg'', June 30, 2011.</ref>
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.<ref name="Reuters">[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>
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.<ref name="Reuters"/>
==Coal mines==
The two lignite mining fields in Serbia re in 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]].<ref>Elektroprivreda Srbije, [http://www.eps.rs/onama/facilitiescoal.htm "About Us: Basic Data: Facilities for coal production, processing and transport "], Elektroprivreda Srbije website, accessed July 2011.</ref>
EPS states that the coal mines associated with power stations in Serbia have a "potential annual production of around 38 million tons."<ref>Elektroprivreda Srbije, [http://www.eps.rs/onama/basicdata.htm "About Us: Basic Data"], Elektroprivreda Srbije website, accessed July 2011.</ref>
An EPS subsidiary, MB Kolubara plc, operates four coal mines -- the Polje B coal mine, the Polje D coal mine, the Tamnava Istok mine and the Tamnava Zapad mine.<ref>Elektroprivreda Srbije, [http://www.eps.rs/onama/mb_kolubara.htm "About Us: Basic Data:
Economic Assosiation for Coal Production, processing and Transport MB Kolubara plc"], Elektroprivreda Srbije website, accessed July 2011.</ref>
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