Elektroprivreda Srbije
| Elektroprivreda Srbije | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 2005 |
| Seat |
 Serbia , Belgrade
|
| management | Aleksandar Obradović, CEO |
| Number of employees | 31,569 |
| sales | EUR 1.92 billion (2013) |
| Branch | energy |
| Website | www.eps.rs |
Elektroprivreda Srbije or EPS for short ( Serbian - Cyrillic Електропривреда Србије / ЕПС , German Electricity Industry of Serbia , English Electric Power Industry of Serbia ) is a Serbian energy supply company .
Elektroprivreda Srbije is 100 percent owned by the Serbian state. The company was founded on July 1, 2005 as the successor to the Yugoslav JP Elektroprivreda Srbije . The group has around 42,000 employees and is the largest employer in Serbia.
In 2007 the group generated 38,897 gigawatt hours of electricity, of which 28,749 GWh were sold in Germany. It also mined 36,506,746 tons of coal. The installed power plant capacity is 5,171 MW in the coal-fired power plants, 353 MW in the gas and oil power plants and 2,831 MW in the hydropower plants (run-of-river power plants and pumped storage power plants).
History of the company
In 1870 coal mining began in Serbia. Fourteen years later, the first electric lighting in Serbia was installed in the military office building in Kragujevac . On October 6, 1893, the first Serbian power plant in Belgrade began producing electricity.
The first hydroelectric power plant for the production of alternating current called Pod gradom in Užice on the Đetinja river went on stream in 1900. This power plant is still working today. The first overhead line from the Vučju hydropower plant to Leskovac with a length of 17 km went into operation three years later. In 1909 the Gamzigrad near Zaječar and Sveta Petka near Niš hydropower plants were built . The hydropower plant on the Moravica River near Ivanjica started operating two years later.
The Snaga i svetlost power plant in Belgrade went into operation in 1933, one of the largest in the Balkans at the time. The establishment of the Električno preduzeće Srbije ( Electricity Producing Company of Serbia) followed in 1945. Between 1947 and 1950, the first power plants were built after the Second World War, the Sokolovica hydropower plant and the Mali Kostolac and Veliki Kostolac power plants . In 1952, the mining of the Kolubara coal field began . Four years later, the Kolubara coal-fired power station went into operation. The Vlasina and Zvornik hydropower plants were connected to the power grid a year earlier . 1960–1967 the construction of the hydropower plants Bistrica , Kokin Brod and Potpeć took place .
In 1965 the association "Združeno elektroprivredno preduzeće Srbije" (ZEPS) was founded. The Bajina Bašta coal-fired power plant started producing electricity a year later. The two largest power plants in Serbia, the Đerdap hydropower plant at the Iron Gate of the Danube and the Nikola Tesla coal-fired power plant , went into operation in 1970. Twelve years later, the Bajina Bašta pumped storage plant was built, and in 1990 the Pirot hydropower plant went into operation. A year later, the state company JP Elektroprivreda Srbije was founded.
Many power plants were badly damaged during the NATO attacks on Serbia in 1999. With the establishment of the UNMIK administration in Kosovo on July 1, 1999, the company lost access to the coal mines and power plants there. In the business statistics, however, these are still shown as separate capacities, while the production figures do not take Kosovo's values into account.
After a break of 13 years, JP EPS became a member of the European network UCTE again in 2004 . In 2005 JP EPS was separated into two companies, JP Elektroprivreda Srbije as the electricity generator and JP Elektromreža Srbije as the network operator.
