Investment worth 1.5 million euros. – Annual production of 2.5 to three millionkilowatt-hours of electricity.
The first new megawatts in the system, “Electric Power Industry of Serbia” and a smallpower plant “Prvonek” in the spa at the Banska River in the vicinity of Vranje, should start on 7 September.
Ceremonial commissioning expected in the second half of October, by which time should be completed and work on the landscape and the dam. After more than 20 years EPS will receive (will get) a new manufacturing facility and construction of small hydropower plants, with two power units of 100 and 800 kilowatts (kW), financed by EPS alone.
The investment is worth 1.5 million euros. Small HPP “Prvonek” a year will produce 2.5 to three million kilowatt-hours.
-All contracts for equipment and civil works are signed and a great deal of work has been completed, and the rest is to install another piece of equipment – said DarkoNikolic, lead engineer for the development of HE in the EPS for the strategy and investment.-The turbine arrived in Subotica, and these days will be made and the trial of her work. Until 7 September small HPP “Prvonek” will be ready to produce electricity.
This small HPPs will be built in less than a year, and efficient construction will be such a good example of practice model for building and other such facilities in Serbia. EPS, in addition to small hydro “Prvonek”, is planning nine more locations of this type. Significantly, the small HPP “Prvonek” as a new hydropower facility, be eligible forincentives for each kilowatt hour of electricity produced, known as “feed in” tariffs, provided by the Serbian Government. Consultant of the project was the Institute for water resources “Jaroslav Cerni”.
This small HPP is not in the program which should be financed by loans from the first phaseof the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, worth 45 million euros, butwill be an example of how to build small hydro in the future.As for the programs of EBRD banks, Nikolic said that the two consulting firms to early September should to do the assessment of small hydro “Selova” and “Rovni”, as well as sixsmall hydro on existing water facilities and 15 existing small HPPs.
Source: Kwh magazine
