Priboj to get biomass-powered boiler-room

Priboj will soon get a woodchip-fueled boiler room, GIZ announced. Its capacity will amount to 1.8 MW, and several public facilities in the town will get connections.

The local self-government in Priboj has been actively participating in the realization of the project Development of Sustainable Bioenergy Market in Serbia within the Germany-Serbian development cooperation for a number of years now.

– These are three phases of investment in the heating of the municipality of Priboj. The first phase was realized in 2016, when a pellet-powered boiler-room with a capacity of 0.9 MW was installed with the financial investments of the local self-government and the technical support of GIZ. This boiler-room has been supplying a school, a preschool institution, a cultural center and the building of the municipal administration with heat for two years now, and the savings are great. The second phase, which entails the construction of a new boiler-room of 1.8 MW and is financed by the Public Investment Management Office of Serbia, is to begin now – says the vice president of the municipality of Priboj, Sasa Vasilic.

He adds that the new boiler-room will heat two primary schools, two secondary schools and an outpatient unit of the Healthcare Center, and the tendering for the procurement of woodchips, which will be the main fuel for this boiler-room, has started as well.

– The third phase will pertain to the construction of a new heating plant of 8 MW in a new location, which will also be biomass-powered. The municipality of Priboj is one of the 10 municipalities which signed an agreement on the realization of the project of having heating plants switch from fossil fuels to biomass last year. The entire project, which is technically supported by GIZ and financially supported by KfW is worth EUR 27 million, of which EUR 20 million comes from a KfW loan, EUR 2 million comes from this bank’s grant, and EUR 5 million comes as a grant from the Swiss government – Vasilic explains.

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