Serbia is entering energy stable this winter, with enough electricity, fuel oil, oil and oil derivatives, and negotiations are underway for a new ten-year contract on gas supply with the Russians, said the Minister of Mining and Energy, Zorana Mihajlović.
Speaking about nuclear energy, Mihajlović pointed out that no energy source is ideal, but that Serbia should think about nuclear energy, considering that by 2050, it must come out of energy based on coal.
“The alternative, when we talk about coal, is to import it. Because the lignite we have – we don’t have enough of it, it’s of catastrophic quality, and with lignite we procure very large quantities of fuel oil. That price per kilowatt hour is very high, and not as low as the citizens pay,” said Mihajlović and added:
“We have to get out of it, our output is hydroelectric power plants, but that is not enough, our output is part of a gas power plant, but we can be quite dependent and our output may be thinking and agreement in the region – whether nuclear power plants are being built somewhere and maybe we can be part of that story, some additional construction,” Mihajlovic said, Nova reports.
