Serbia has received four new legal solutions, which should contribute to the implementation of the energy transition, so that the interests of citizens and the state are protected, but also the norms we have accepted regarding the Paris Agreement and other obligations related to the energy sector.
Members of the Serbian Parliament adopted the Law on Mining and Geological Research, the Law on Energy, the Law on Energy Efficiency and Rational Use of Energy and the Law on the Use of Renewable Energy Sources. The Minister of Mining and Energy, Zorana Mihajlovic, said in the general discussion that these laws represent a turning point in the energy policy of Serbia, which has so far been based on the use of energy from thermal and hydro power plants.
She pointed out that these laws imply that Serbia’s energy policy in the future is based on the use of renewable energy sources and efficient use of energy, and stressed that these laws should contribute to climate-sustainable economic development of Serbia, which, as she said, already exists in the world.
So far, there have been a lot of announcements, promises and assessments of what their legal solutions bring. Now we have to implement them. And under what conditions should they define bylaws, for which we have heard promises that they will be written quickly.
Then, realization follows. And, here we come to the field of implementing the energy transition, which has, in fact, already begun. That is, whose script the world centers of power have already written for us, without asking if we agree. Public debates, the world’s climate summits, have so far only served to give politicians, self-proclaimed world leaders, a chance to tell what needs to be done in well-directed performances. Rich countries, which give themselves the right to create the lives of our inhabitants from poor countries and do not think of forbidding themselves what they defend others.
Nobody is forcing France to close the nuclear power plants, Germany built the Datteln 4 thermal power plant in the middle of the adoption of the law on the cessation of electricity production from coal last year, announcing that it would close it by 2038. Saudi Arabia, rich in oil and natural gas, is building a coal-fired and nuclear power plant, which is also being built by Great Britain, and Japan, which wanted to expel nuclear energy after Fukushima, is now revising its positions. It is difficult to see what the energy transition means for the United States – especially after yesterday’s address by their President Joe Biden at the climate event on the occasion of Planet Day and the culmination of the conflict between congressional currents, which is for or against the oil business. And the bottom line is that they often say one thing and do another. What is in the best interest of their economies and the efficiency of filling the budget – theirs.
That is why Serbia now has a serious job to do. That in the bylaws of these laws and new strategies, which have been announced, we make sure to preserve not only energy independence – this is an imperative that must not be ignored – but also to get energy that supports and encourages the development of not only energy companies, which is of course, crucial for energy security but also for the overall development of the economy.
In translation, that would mean that we must not neglect our own interests in order to meet all the requirements they set for us when it comes to energy.
Unfortunately, behind the story of the green energy transition, the claim that urgently – so today, when we did not do it yesterday – coal-fired power plants must be shut down, that oil derivatives must be expelled from roads and that even natural gas is a dirty fuel, Mondo reports.
