Kostolac will be the first wind park of EPS, with a project value of 144 million euros. As announced, the direct beneficiaries will be 30,000 households able to connect to this renewable energy source. Whether wind parks and similar investments in the future will lead to lower electricity bills and perhaps, finally, the recovery of EPS, which has been deteriorating for decades, was discussed by energy expert Željko Marković on the morning program ‘Probudi se’.
Elektroprivreda Srbije (EPS) plans to build a wind power plant on the site of depleted surface mines and the ash and slag dumps of the Kostolac thermal power plants and mines. The wind power plant is expected to annually produce 184 million kilowatt-hours of electricity, enough to supply about 30,000 households.
Serbia, like other countries, has committed to ceasing electricity generation from fossil fuels and transitioning to green sources. The biggest gain from this is clean air, as reminded by Marković.
“The minister in charge announced that the ‘Kostolac’ wind park should be connected to the grid and start supplying green energy to citizens in the first half of 2025, enabling electricity supply for 30,000 households.
“The announced wind park will have an installed capacity of 67 megawatts, which is not a significant capacity. We have other capacities, not owned by EPS; they were built by other investors, so far we have 500 megawatts from renewable sources, but we still need to build more in the future,” he said, reminding that Serbia has committed to completely phase out coal in electricity production by 2050.”
