Energy Efficiency Project

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The development objective of the project is to improve energy efficiency in heating buildings in order to make heating more affordable as well as improve the functional and health environment of the users. An important associated objective is to reduce the local and global environmental impact of the use of dirty fuels for heating buildings in Serbia. The project has the following three components: Component (i). Environmental Improvement, Rehabilitation of the Heat Supply System, and Energy Efficiency Improvements in the Clinical Center. The Clinical Center complex includes 76 buildings, with a total covered area of 391 thousand square meters, spread over an area of 38 hectares. These buildings include hospitals, specialized clinics, faculties and research institutes, as well as administration, service and storage buildings. The energy supply services within the Clinical Center of Serbia (CCS) consist of heat supply from 19 separate boiler plants (some more than 40 years old, using lignite and heavy oil) comprising of total 72 boiler units with a variety of unit sizes. Electricity is supplied to the CCS, through underground cables, by the local power distribution company. The heat is distributed either by steam or by hot water through pipes mainly laid in channel beds. The annual fuel consumption of the heat plant is about 11,500 tons of heavy fuel oil, 650 tons of light fuel oil and 6,850 tons of coal, for which storage facilities are also provided. Component (ii). Energy Efficiency Improvements in Social Service buildings (Schools and Hospitals) across Serbia. This component will finance the installation of energy efficiency equipment and retrofitting in schools and hospitals. The initial investment program consists of 17 primary schools with heated floor space of about 51,000 m2 and 12 hospital buildings with a total heated floor space of about 68,000 m2. A total of about 60-70 buildings and the heating systems which supply them would be retrofitted over the five year implementation period. Component (iii): Technical Assistance. Technical assistance provided through the project would help Serbian Energy Efficiency Agency (SEEA) to develop monitoring and evaluation capacity, training and communications activities that it would use not only for the implementation of the proposed IDA project but also for follow on activities, in particular for the residential consumers.