Serbia can also build a gas-fired power plant for the production of electricity, but this is not a permanent, but a temporary solution because it also emits carbon dioxide, a gas with a greenhouse effect, and would have to be closed by 2050, said a member of the Alliance today. Energy Minister of Serbia, Željko Marković.
“The strategy should determine the optimal energy mix of electricity sources. Serbia should develop renewable energy sources, nuclear energy and energy from green hydrogen. Part of the energy can also be obtained by building gas power plants, but that is a temporary solution and they would have to be shut down by 2050,” Marković told Beta.
He added that the volume of electricity production from the gas power plant should be determined by a serious study.
The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, said that yesterday he spoke with the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, about the construction of a large gas power plant in Serbia, from which both countries can benefit.
Serbia has committed to international acts and the Green Agenda for the Western Balkans to be carbon neutral by 2050, with no carbon dioxide emissions in energy production.
Marković stated that gas power plants emit 50 percent less carbon dioxide than coal thermal power plants.
He pointed out that when making a decision on the construction of a gas power plant, it should be taken into account that Serbia imports gas, as well as what to do if for some reason there is not enough gas or if its price rises.
In Europe, as he said, gas power plants produce 20 percent of electricity and the last energy crisis in which gas prices jumped is a consequence of the operation of those power plants. Those power plants, he said, also dictated the prices of gas and electricity in the recent energy crisis.
The price of currently produced electricity from wind and solar power plants is lower than the price of electricity obtained from a gas power plant.
“I am not saying that gas power plants should not be built, but only that one should be careful and determine to what extent,” said Marković.
He explained that the average cost of building a gas congener power plant, which produces both electricity and thermal energy, is about 1,000 euros per kilowatt of installed power, which is half the price of investing in a thermal power plant.
According to him, the gas power plant in Pancevo, which, according to him, the Oil Industry of Serbia has almost put into operation, is, for the sake of comparison, 150 megawatts, and the installed power of the thermal power plant “Nikola Tesla B” is 1,300 megawatts.
Source: Beta Green Serbia
Source: energetskiportal.rs
