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Serbia will soon receive the Renewable Sources Law which, in coordination with the amendments to the Energy Efficiency Law, will benefit citizens because they will be able to produce and sell green kilowatts and thus reduce energy consumption in their homes and electricity and heating. bills.
– So everyone can place solar panels in their family home or in the building where one, five or fifty people live. And so to reduce costs on your electricity bill – explained the Minister of Energy Zorana Mihajlović.
If, they say, they do not consume what they produce from solar panels, that part of the energy can go to the grid and they can have savings in their account. The plan is for our country to provide 50 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2050, which will significantly reduce pollution that results from energy production from coal and fuel oil.
Everything is fine, just no one informed the households how much it would cost to install the panels. Is it technically feasible that only one or two of the 60 apartments in the building can install a panel themselves? Does Serbia have enough sunny days in the year for that electricity to be spent at the year’s prices without hindrance, and for what time will the investment pay off for those who have the money to put it on the roofs?
These questions are all the more logical if we know that in Serbia most of the homes, especially in old buildings, do not have the financial means to replace the dilapidated carpentry, the insulation of the walls … The energy efficiency fee has been calculated for each liter of fuel since the last time. year to provide a fund of money for those who wanted to save their houses and apartments, because the banks, as is known, were not very generous to attend and grant favorable loans to citizens.
Dejan Stojadinović, an energy consultant, explains that installing a one-kilowatt panel takes up 2.5 square meters of roof space and costs around 1,000 euros. And how many of them can be placed on the ceiling depends on how big they are.
– It is technically feasible to place panels on the roof and distribute electricity to as many departments as participated in the investment. It should be known that a one-kilowatt panel in Serbia produces around 1,200 kilowatt-hours of electricity annually, explains Stojadinović.
He adds that the relationship between the buyer and the seller and the “supply of EPS” will be regulated by the electric power purchase contract, the only question is at what price this public company will take over the green energy. It explains that the new proposal for the Renewable Energy Law (RES) contemplates that EPS buy this electricity at a price that covers its production costs, so as not to lose, plus network charges … In addition, each consumer in Serbia has a Different electricity prices because some consume an average of 360 kilowatts per month and are constantly in the green zone, and some are in the more expensive red zone. This whole story, he adds, makes more sense for large electricity consumers.
Asked about the announced changes to the RES Law, as well as the possibility for each home to produce electricity and even sell it to a third party, Prof. Dr. Milos Banjac, former Deputy Minister of Renewable Sources at the Ministry of Energy, an active member of SANU’s Energy Committee, said the possibility is not provided for in the new RES law.
– The largest electricity supplier for households in Serbia is “EPS supply”, so there is no doubt that people can sell electricity to third parties. Each household has the right to choose its supplier and some households are already supplied by private suppliers. The new renewable energy sources law introduces the term “buyer-seller” of electricity and therefore stipulates that natural persons can use electricity from renewable sources “behind the meter”, as before, for their own needs, as well as that the surplus of electricity produced can sell to its supplier – says Banjac.
Our interlocutor emphasizes that only the “EPS supply” could buy the electricity produced in this way, at the price that he determines. EPS’s market share is around 97 percent, despite the fact that there are currently more than 70 providers operating in Serbia. It is about covering total final electricity consumption, which includes industry and the public sector, he says.
Unfortunately, neither this law nor the Energy Law regulate the relationship between the “buyer-seller” and the electricity supplier, so the possibility is left to the “EPS supply” to condition the price at which the surplus electricity will be purchased. produced in this way. . Until now, that price was the so-called production price at which EPS itself produces electricity from its own thermal and hydroelectric plants, excluding the price of network tariffs, excluding VAT, excise duties … which is much lower of what end customers pay and that is far from stimulating.
Therefore, if the proposed RES Act is not seriously changed, nothing will be accomplished with this desirable and strategically important solar program. I will also remind you of similar statements by the Minister from 2013 on the construction of mini hydroelectric plants. Miloš Banjac cites the only article (59) of the RES Law that regulates this area, according to which the end customer has the right to connect a power plant using renewable energy sources to the internal electrical installations of its installation for its own consumption . . of the approved power of the final customer’s installation.
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