Serbia has good conditions for using solar energy, said Jovana Joksimović, Assistant Minister of Mining and Energy for International Cooperation and European Integration, adding that the state's task is to use this natural resource to ensure a secure electricity supply, greater energy independence and lower emissions of harmful gases.
According to her, renewable energy sources will become the main domestic source of electricity in the years ahead, and the way to achieve this is through the most economical use of the available wind and solar potential.
“Solar energy is part of the answer to the strategic challenges facing the energy sector of Serbia and other Western Balkan countries, because it is a clean and accessible source of energy that helps reduce import dependence and emissions of harmful gases,” Joksimović said at the panel “The role and importance of solar energy on the road to carbon neutrality” in Banja Luka.
She pointed out that work on increasing solar capacity is proceeding on several tracks.
“Through market premium auctions, successfully held for the first time last year and including a quota for solar power plants, through projects implemented by Elektroprivreda Srbije, and through projects implemented by the private sector. One example is the construction of 1 GW of self-balancing solar power plants by a consortium led by South Korea's Hyundai Engineering, which will be owned by EPS, i.e. the state, once completed,” she said, adding that the customer-producer (prosumer) status has also been established, allowing citizens to become active participants in the energy transition.
The Assistant Minister noted that Serbia is in the process of adopting strategic documents that will determine the direction and pace of change in the energy sector during the energy transition.
As she pointed out, specific targets are defined in the Integrated National Energy and Climate Plan up to 2030, with projections to 2050, and in the new Energy Development Strategy up to 2040, with projections to 2050, which will be adopted in the coming period.
“The Integrated Plan is the first strategic document that looks at climate and energy issues together. It took two and a half years to prepare, amid major geopolitical changes that were felt most of all in the energy sector. By 2030, the main goals are to increase the share of renewables in electricity production to 45 percent, cut emissions of harmful gases by 40.4 percent compared with 1990, and significantly improve energy efficiency,” Joksimović said.
Source: energetskiportal.rs (in Serbian)
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