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Feed-in tariffs introduced in Serbia via Regulation on promoting power generation from renewables

Date: November 24^th 2009 Author: Dragan Obradović, Belgrade Category: Articles
Topic: Electricity , RES and EE

The objective of the Republic of Serbia before end 2012 is to enhance its power generation from renewable energy sources by 7.4 per cent or 735 million kilowatt hours compared to 2007.

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In this respect, the Ministry of Mining and Energy has prepared a set of changes and amendments to the National Implementation Programme of Strategy for the Development of Energy in Serbia by 2012, adopted regulation on acquiring the status of privileged power producer earlier this September and regulation on incentive measures regarding power generation from renewable sources and by means of combined heat and power systems (November 19, 2009).

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Feed-in tariffs per kilowatt hour of electricity, generated from renewables or CHP are as follows:

small hydropower plants – between 7.8 and 9.7 Euro cents;
biomass units – between 11.4 and 13.6 Euro cents;
biogas – between 12 and 16 Euro cents;
gas from waste water treatment plants and landfill gas – 6.7 Euro cents;
wind farms – 9.5 Euro cents;
solar power plants – 23 Euro cents;
geothermal power plants – 7.5 Euro cents;
cogeneration power plants – between 7.6 and 10.4 Euro cents, and
waste power plants – between 8.5 and 9.2 Euro cents.

Minister of Mining and Energy, Petar Skundric PhD told the press that the respective regulation obliged Elektroprivreda Srbije (EPS) to buy electricity generated from renewables at higher feed-in tariffs, set by the Serbian government. Minister further pointed out that it had been foreseen that feed-in tariff system could not contribute to electricity prices escalating by more than 0.3 per cent over the next couple of years.

He said that Serbia had a major potential for generating electricity from renewable sources which was equivalent to annual consumption of 4.3 million tons of oil. Thereof, biomass accounts for 63 per cent of the potential, hydro and solar power for 14 per cent each, while five and four per cent fall on wind and biothermal sources respectively.

Skundric also said that over the next five years, they expect to see several million Euros invested into the capacities for generating power from renewables, adding that two small hydropower plants should have been completed by end year. In addition, there are ten other authorisations granted for construction of small hydropower plants and six for wind parks in total capacity of 1,000 megawatts.

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