The local self-government of Pirota ordered all institutions and public companies to save energy and to consider possibilities for the construction of solar power plants. So far, two institutions and three public companies have installed solar panels, and the plans are much more ambitious.
By disposing of and recycling garbage, they protect the environment, and by producing electricity from solar panels, they create additional savings. In just 15 days of operation, the solar power plant at the Regional Landfill in Pirot reduced carbon dioxide emissions by a thousand kilograms.
Current production covers approximately 95% of consumption. All the produced energy is consumed by our consumers, so at the moment the solar power plant meets our needs”, says Nenad Đorđević, executive director of PUK “Regional landfill”.
Solar panels heat the technical water in the swimming pools and in the kindergartens in Pirot, and the power plant in the public company Komunalac produces more energy than the directorate needs.
“So we here in the administration cover the entire consumption and have a surplus of about 7,000 kilowatts. This is certainly a positive experience, and with subsidies of 50 percent, it is not that expensive,” says Boban Tolić, director of JP “Komunalac”.
Due to the constant need for savings and the use of green energy, the city administration of Pirot is planning to establish a special department for energy transition.
“The ultimate goal of the city of Pirot is to be, in the true sense of the word, citizens of Pirot, to produce as much energy as possible, and when I say energy, I mean the energy needed to heat rooms and water, and the energy needed to produce electricity, from our own sources and to be rational in consumption, not to waste energy”, says Vladan Vasić, mayor of Pirot.
The old landfill is one of the biggest environmental problems in Pirot. The idea of the city administration is to build a large solar power plant on this area of 5 hectares after the reclamation of the landfill.
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