Elektroprivreda Srbije
Electric Power Srbije or shortly EPS ( Serbian Cyrillic Електропривреда Србије / ЕПС, German electricity industry of Serbia, English Electric power industry of Serbia ) is a Serbian power company.
Electric Power Srbije is 100 percent owned by the Serbian state. The company was founded on 1 July 2005 as a successor to the Yugoslav JP Elektroprivreda Srbije. The Group has about 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 domestically. He also promoted 36,506,746 tons of coal. The installed capacity is in coal power plants 5,171 MW, in the gas and oil power plants 353 MW and the hydro power plants ( hydroelectric power plants and pumped storage power plants) 2,831 MW.
History of the company
In 1870, coal mining began in Serbia. Fourteen years later, the first electric lighting in Serbia was set up in the military office building in Kragujevac. On October 6, 1893 first Serbian power plant started in Belgrade with the production of electricity.
The first hydroelectric power plant for the production of alternating current name Pod gradom in Uzice on the river Đetinja went in 1900 to the network. This power plant is working today. The first transmission line from hydropower plant Vučju to Leskovac with a length of 17 km was three years later in operation. In 1909 was the construction of the hydroelectric power plants at Gamzigrad Zaječar and Sveta Petka in Niš. The hydroelectric power station on the river Moravica at Ivanjica took two years later on the operation.
In Belgrade, the power plant Snaga i went Svetlost 1933, operating one of the largest in the Balkans at that time. The establishment of the Električno Preduzece Srbije ( Serbian electricity production operation ) followed 1945. Between 1947 and 1950 they built the first power stations after the Second World War, the hydropower plant Sokolovica and coal power plants Kostolac Mali and Veliki Kostolac. 1952, the underground mining of the coal field Kolubara. Four years later, the coal power plant Kolubara went into operation. A year earlier, the hydropower plants Vlasina and Zvornik went to the electricity grid. 1960-1967 was the construction of hydroelectric power plants Bistrica, Kokin Brod and Potpeć.
1965 " Združeno elektroprivredno Preduzece Srbije " ( ZEPS ) was the association founded. The coal-fired power plant Bajina Basta began a year later with the production of electricity. The two largest power plants in Serbia, the hydropower plant Djerdap at the Iron Gates of the Danube and the coal power plant Nikola Tesla, went into operation in 1970. Twelve years later, the pumped storage plant Bajina Basta was built in 1990 then taken the hydroelectric power plant in Pirot operation. A year later the government operating JP Elektroprivreda Srbije was founded.
During the NATO attacks on Serbia in 1999, many power plants have been severely damaged. With the establishment of the UNMIK administration in Kosovo on 1 July 1999, the company lost access to the local coal mines and power plants. In the business statistics but these will continue to be reported as a separate capacity, while production figures do not take into account the values of Kosovo.
After a break of 13 years, JP EPS in 2004 was again a member of the European UCTE interconnected system. 2005 JP EPS was separated into two companies, JP Elektroprivreda Srbije as power generators and JP Elektromreže Srbije as a network operator.