The Ministry of Mining and Energy will announce a public call for subsidies for solar panels on September 3, and after that, local governments will continue to take further steps, said State Secretary of the Ministry of Mining and Energy, Jovanka Atanackovic.
“The most important information for the citizens is that the procedure has been simplified and that they only need to contact the supplier and they will be connected to the network within a few days,” she said as a guest on RTS.
As it was announced from the Ministry of Mining and Energy, Atanackovic pointed out that the procedure after the announcement of the public invitation will be the same as in the case of subsidizing the replacement of carpentry.
She pointed out that world trends in Serbia are being monitored in the process of energy transition.
“When we talk about the fact that citizens can become buyers and producers, which is a novelty in our country, little needs to be done. Today, the Government of Serbia adopts the decree on prosumer and the application of this regulation begins, which is in fact only one step towards solar panels,” she said.
She reminded that it was necessary to fulfill the administrative procedures earlier and that the procedure lasted longer than six months.
“Everything is different today. Citizens only need to contact the supplier after the purchase and installation of the panel, with whom they will change the contract and after that they will be connected to the network,” said Atanackovic.
She explained that from then on, all customers-producers will receive a two-way meter, which means that they will hand over all produced electricity to the network, and at the end of the month the difference can be seen, so if they produced more than they consumed, they will switch to next month.
Atanackovic pointed out that the area of roofs in Serbia is about 600 square kilometers, and that, if only ten percent of that capacity is used, we could have about six gigawatts of electricity from solar panels.
“Solar panels have a double benefit for all of us. They are economically viable in seven to eight years, and their working life is 25 years,” she stated and added that the panels also reduce the electricity bills.
“The next important reason is that we all start taking care of the health of the environment and energy efficiency, because we throw the production of one thermal power plant out the window every year,” concluded Jovanka Atanackovic, Politika reports.
