Residents of Three Belgrade Municipalities to Get Heating from Waste from Vinca Landfill – Facility Worth EUR 23.5 Million Starts Working

At the Konjarnik Heating Plant, the facility for taking the heating energy produced at the complex of the sanitary landfill Vinca has started working. The value of this investment is EUR 23.5 million, and consumers from parts of the municipalities of Vracar, Zvezdara and Vozdovac will get heating from this source.

Nikola Nikodijevic, a member of the Temporary Organ of the City of Belgrade, said that, for the first time, the Belgrade Power Plants would start using renewable sources for heating energy supply.

– That is important because we have shown that waste is a valuable resource, considering that it is becoming a resource of the city, and another thing is that we are beginning to use modern technologies and preserving the environment. We are also becoming less dependent on the import and consumption of gas. With 56.5 megawatts that we are now getting from the energy facility in Vinca, we are able to provide better heating to residents of Vracar, Zvezdara and Vozdovac. Also, the conditions are met for expansions and new connections, primarily of individual users. That is very important, because individual furnaces are the biggest polluters – stated Nikodijevic.

Vanja Vukic, the director of the PU Belgrade Power Plants, said that it was a big day for the company, because energy produced from renewable sources was being used for the first time.

– This is the first time that the Belgrade Power Plants are using energy from the renewable sources from the Vinca incinerator. This will be a turning point in the development of the Belgrade Power Plants and I hope that, in the future, we will get more and more energy from renewable sources – said Vukic.

The Konjarnik Heating Plant was put into operation in 1976 and its total installed power is 311 megawatts, whereas, with the taking of the heating energy from the waste incinerator in Vinca, this heating plant will have an additional 56.5 megawatts of heating energy in the future.

Construction of heating pipeline for cooling energy for EXPO too

According to him, this is just one of the projects planned for the Belgrade Power Plants. The second one is the construction of a heating power line, which has been discussed for a long time, and the project has finally started.

– When the thermal power plant in Obrenovac is connected to the heating plant in New Belgrade, new benefits in the supply of heating energy will be obtained, and the entire EXPO will be connected to that project, so, in addition to heating energy, we will also be able to deliver cooling energy, because the consumption of electrical energy for cooling is increasing. That way, electricity consumption will be largely reduced as well. We have great potential in geothermal sources, especially the left bank of the Danube, Batajnica, so the plan is to work on those projects as well and for the Belgrade Power Plants, as the biggest supplier of heating energy in the Balkans, to be the best equipped and most modern in terms of technology in the future, to use modern technology which will not jeopardize the environment, and which will enable numerous benefits for the citizens – said Nikodijevic.

JKP Beogradske Elektrane Beograd

Grad Beograd

PUE Belgrade Power Plants

City of Belgrade

Vanja Vukić

Nikola Nikodijević

Konjarnik Heating Plant

Vinča landfill