Kladovo will soon join the settlements where biomass is used for district heating.
In the settlement of Pemci, a new heating plant is “growing”, a capital investment of the municipality of Kladovo, financed by the Office for Public Investment Management of the Government of Serbia. The work worth 3.4 million euros without VAT, from design, construction, procurement of equipment to installation, is carried out by a group of bidders in the consortium, among which is the well-known Austrian company for the production of boiler plants “Polytechnik”. The contractor is the company “Termomont” d.o.o. from Belgrade, according to the local self-government.
– After the completion of the renovation of the elementary school “Vuk Karadzic” in Kladovo, the Municipality of Kladovo, together with the Office for Public Investment Management of the Government of Serbia, continued the implementation of priority projects related to improving the standards of the local population.
A heating plant on wood chips “Pemci 1” with a capacity of 2 x 3.0 MW is being built in the northwestern part of Kladovo, on a plot of 5941m2. In the peripheral part of the plot there are internal roads (two-way road and fire road), and in the central part there will be a heating building, with daily storage of chips, chimneys and filters for flue gas purification, hot water accumulators, multi-day chips storage and hydrant network with pump station.- explains the mayor of Kladovo Sasa Nikolic.
Kladovo has a district heating system with two heating plants managed by PE “Jedinstvo”. The “Pemci” heating plant supplies thermal energy to a part of the Pemci settlement and uses coal as an energy source, while the “Centar” heating plant uses fuel oil.
The new heating plant will help Kladovo to get better and more efficient central heating in a more economically favorable and energy and environmentally acceptable way, and according to the head of the Kladovo mayor Nevenka Boldorac, this will initially be an additional alternative, but in the future this heating method will become the main one for determination of the municipality of Kladovo, not only public buildings, but also residential buildings.
– In achieving the “Three E’s” (economy, ecology, energy efficiency), the Government of the Republic of Serbia is helping local communities to think more seriously about solving problems of vital importance for future generations. The principle of economically more favorable, environmentally friendly and more energy-efficient ways of production, distribution and use of thermal energy has already taken root in some environments or is in the implementation phase.
It is certain that the awareness of the population about the environment is changing. Nature is no longer grammatically determined by the locative – the place where we use it, but becomes instrumental – in order to live and survive together, Nevenka Boldorac points out, adding that the work of the future heating plant will, in addition to reducing the costs of energy production, certainly reflect on the improvement of air quality in Kladovo.
At the construction site of the new biomass heating plant, the installation of two boilers with an installed capacity of 3 megawatts each with an individual weight of 15.5 tons is in progress. In this phase of construction of the heating plant, one heat accumulator with a capacity of 0.5 MW will be installed, with the possibility of installing the other three in the next phase, which would increase the total power of the heating plant to 8 MW.
In addition to all the necessary infrastructure that is being built, and it is about hydraulic installations, electrical and telecommunication network, an automatic heating system will be installed, which includes communication with the substations of old heating plants that “Pemci 1” will supply with thermal energy.
The preparation of documentation for announcing public procurements for the construction of the heating pipeline “Pemci 1” – “Centar” is in progress, in order to complete the entire system of the heating plant, the heating pipeline and the necessary reconstruction of the existing heating plants by the dates planned according to the dynamic plan for trial operation. The complete work should be completed in the first half of next year, when the heating plant “Pemci 1” will start working, Danas reports.
