Priboj and Mali Zvornik were the first in Serbia to get biomass heating plants, which means that the district heating systems in those municipalities completely switched from fuel oil to environmental fuels.
Instead of coal and fuel oil, in the warehouse of the heating plants in Mali Zvornik and Priboj, there is a wooden chip, which is enough in the local environment.
“The benefits we have from that are 24-hour heating, the functioning of the heating plant itself without losses on the network and what is very important, and that is a healthy environment,” points out Vladan Krasavac, the head of the Macvan district.
By switching from fossil fuels to biomass, these cities will have 90 percent lower carbon dioxide emissions.
With 20,000 cubic meters of wood chips for the season, the heating plant in Priboj, with a capacity of 12 and a half megawatts, will heat about 1,600 apartments, schools, public companies, but work is also being done to replace the firebox for individual users.
“By entering this business, we encouraged our Priboj businessmen, they monitored our activities in parallel and were trained so that all these facilities, all these boiler rooms and our heating plant are supplied by our domestic businessman,” points out Lazar Rvovic, President of Priboj Municipality.
After Priboj and Mali Zvornik, the construction of heating plants in Novi Pazar and Majdanpek will follow, which will also use renewable energy sources.
The Minister of Mining and Energy, Zorana Mihajlovic, stated in Priboj that the goal of the state is to increase the energy efficiency of heating plants and the use of fuels that do not affect the health of the environment.
“I am proud because everything was done on time, there were no delays. This is important for all citizens, not only because it is about energy self-sufficiency, because the heating plants will use local wood chips as fuel, but also because they will have heating 24 hours. Also, the environmental picture is important, because the protection of the environment will be different from now on,” the minister said, RTS reports.
