Aleksandra Pastor

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Serbia Investment and Export Promotion Agency
INVEST IN SERBIA Renewable Energy Presentation
based on the inputs from Ministry of Energy
Aleksandra Pastor Country Officer Serbia
March, 2009
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RES TECHNICAL POTENTIAL

• Serbias endowment of renewable energy resources
  is substantial - realization of these potentials
  require Government action

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BIOMASS

• Most promising utilization options for biomass
• Space heating in households and buildings using
  biomass pellets or briquettes
• Co-firing or total replacement in district
  heating plants firing heavy oil or coal in south
  Serbia, where natural gas is not available yet
• Production of electricity utilizing agricultural
  and wood wastes

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HYDRO POTENTIAL

• SHPP Cadastre (1987)
• 856 locations
• 500 MW
• 1,500 GWh/year
• gt5 MW 9 locations
• 2-5MW 30 locations (average 3 MW)
• lt1 MW largest number of locations
• SHPP in Serbia (60 existing - 50 out of
  operation)
• Revitalization (SHPP from 1903 working with the
  original Siemens generator)
• Construction

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SOLAR

• Average yearly insolation in Serbia about 1,400
  kWh/m²
• Average daily value about 3.8 kWh/m²
• If each housing unit (2.65 million units) would
  install average 4 m² of collectors
• Equivalent to some saving potential of 7,420 GWh

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GEOTHERMAL

• Use of geothermal potential is mainly for
  balneological purposes, sports and recreation
• Total installed energy use - 74 MWt
• Prospects for expanding geothermal energy for
  agricultural heat and water heating are
  reasonably good
• Potential for larger scale geothermal electricity
  is limited - requires water temperatures above
  100C

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WIND

• Wind data based on 10 meter heights extrapolated
  to 50 meter heights
• 2,300 GWh
• 1,300 MW of capacity at sites with minimal
  average wind speeds of 5 m/s

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Current barriers for wider use of
RESINSTITUTIONAL

• Lack of experience
• Need for the experience of how a private sector
  renewable energy project can work in Serbia
• Absence of first set of projects
• Transition Issues
• Many industrial companies are in transition
  both with regard to structure and ownership, and
  managements are not yet ready to consider
  measures to rationalize energy activities

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Current barriers for wider use of RESFINANCIAL

• Absence of a price support mechanism
• Renewable energy projects are not bankable
  without a price support mechanism
• RES cannot compete with fossil electricity
  generation based on lignite (whose price does not
  reflect their environmental damage costs)
• Debt Financing support
• Difficulty to secure long term loans appropriate
  for small renewable energy projects
• Electricity tariff
• Low electricity tariff does not stipulate
  domestic, commercial and industrial consumers to
  use renewable energy - current average price is 5
  cents/kWh

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Current barriers for wider use of RESLEGAL
(deadline for adoption July 1, 2009)

• Feed-in tariffs as the price support mechanism
• Changes in the Energy Law
• drafted, pending to be adopted
• Production, transport, storage and trade of
  bio-fuels is recognized as energy activity
• Definition of renewable energy sources is
  amplified and contains bio-fuels, biogas,
  landfill gas, sewage gas
• Definition of biomass refers to biodegradable
  material developed in agriculture, forestry and
  accompanying industry for energy purposes
• Definition of privileged power producers includes
  all RES producers except hydro-power plants and
  biomass power plants larger than 10 MW
• Guaranteed grid access to a privileged power
  producers - through obligation of local
  distribution company to purchase all the
  electricity produced from RES

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