Elektroprivreda Srbije
Native name
Електропривреда Србије
TypeJoint-stock company
IndustryElectric utility
PredecessorElektrično preduzeće Srbije
(1945–1965)
Združeno Elektroprivredno preduzeće Srbije
(1965–1991)
Founded1 July 2005 (2005-07-01) (current form)
1991 (1991) (founded)
Headquarters
Belgrade
,
Serbia
Area served
Serbia
Key people
Oluf Ulseth (Supervisory Board Chairman)[1]
Dušan Živković (acting director)[2]
ProductsElectric power
Coal
Production output
36.461 TWh (2016)[3]
ServicesElectricity generation and distribution, electricity retailing, mining
RevenueIncrease €2.726 billion (2021)[4]
Negative increase (€132.05 million) (2021)[4]
Total assetsIncrease €8.182 billion (2021)[5]
Total equityIncrease €5.132 billion (2021)[5]
OwnerGovernment of Serbia (100%)
Number of employees
24,013 (2021)
SubsidiariesEPS Distribucija Belgrade
EPS Trgovanje Ljubljana
Websiteeps.rs
Footnotes / references
Business ID: 20053658
Tax ID: 103920327[6]

Elektroprivreda Srbije (abbr. EPS; full legal name: Javno preduzeće Elektroprivreda Srbije Beograd) is a joint-stock electric utility power company fully owned by the Government of Serbia, with headquarters in Belgrade, Serbia. It was founded in 1991 and it has 24,013 employees (as of 2021), making it the largest enterprise in the country.

The company has an installed capacity of 7,326 MW and generates 36.461 TWh of electricity per year.[3] Its installed capacity in lignite-fired thermal power plant is 4,390 MW, gas-fired and liquid fuel-fired combined heat and power plants is 336 MW, and hydro power plants is 2,936 MW.[7] EPS also operates three power plants of total capacity 461 MW which are not in the ownership of the company.[8]

EPS is also the largest producer of lignite in Serbia operating in the Kolubara and Kostolac basins, producing around 37 million tonnes per year.[9]

History

Ivanjica's 1911 HPP building

Since 1870, the coal production has begun in Serbia. Fourteen years later, the first electric lighting in Serbia was furnished in the military office building in Kragujevac. On 6 October 1893, the first Serbian power plant in Belgrade started with the production of electricity.[10]

In 1900, the first alternating current hydroelectric power plant Pod gradom in Užice on the river Đetinja went online. This power plant is still operating. The first alternating current transmission line from hydroelectric power plant Vučje to Leskovac, with the length of 17 kilometres (11 mi), went online three years later.[11][12] In 1909, hydroelectric plants Gamzigrad in Zaječar and Sveta Petka in Niš began to build.[13] Two years later, the hydroelectric power station on the river Moravica in Ivanjica was put in the operation.[14]

In Belgrade, the power plant Snaga i Svetlost was built in 1933, being one of the largest in the Balkans at that time.

1945–1991

The establishment of the Električno preduzeće Srbije followed in 1945. Between 1947 and 1950, the hydroelectric power plant Sokolovica and coal power plants Mali Kostolac and Veliki Kostolac, the first power stations to be built in Serbia after the Second World War.[15] In 1952, the underground mining of the coal field Kolubara had started. Four years later, coal power plant RB Kolubara went in operation. A year earlier, the hydroelectric power plants Vlasina and Zvornik have been connected to the power grid. In the period from 1960 to 1967, hydroelectric power plants Bistrica, Kokin Brod and Potpeć were under construction.

In 1965, Združeno elektroprivredno preduzeće Srbije was founded. The coal-fired power plant Bajina Bašta began with the production of electricity a year later. The two largest power plants in Serbia, the hydroelectric power plant HPP Đerdap I at the Danube river and the coal power plant TENT, went into operation in 1970. Twelve years later, the pumped storage plant Bajina Bašta was built, and in 1990 the hydroelectric power station Pirot was put into operation.

1991–2005

In 1991, the company was reorganized and changed name to Elektroprivreda Srbije.

During the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia 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 its access to the local coal mines and power plants, including Kosovo A and Kosovo B power plants.[8]

Since then, government-owned Elektroprivreda Srbija by political decision continued to pay off earnings to all of Kosovo-based EPS companies - EPS Surface Mining Kosovo, EPS TPP Kosovo and EPS Elektrokosmet.[16] However, all these employees are not working in Kosovo-based power plants, and are only occasionally and indirectly employed by EPS throughout the rest of Serbia.[16] As of May 2009, there was a total of around 7,000 such employees which were working only on paper and receive regular earnings.[17] As of June 2017, that number was cut to 4,539 employees.[16]

Following the stabilization of the country after war, in 2004 EPS was again a member of the European interconnected system UCTE.

2005–2013

Company operates in the current form since 1 July 2005. Then, the electric power transmission division of EPS was split from the company and established as its own public enterprise, named Elektromreža Srbije (EMS).[18]

Since 2007, EPS has prepared plans for the construction of new power plants and the expansion of existing plants to increase generating capacity and meet growing consumption demand.[19]

2013–2023

EPS de facto holds a monopoly on the electricity market in Serbia. Since 1 January 2013, the Serbian electricity market has been open to other companies with the expectations to be completely liberalized in the coming years.[20] Since then, EPS has continued with further reorganization for better company's effectiveness. In 2014, EPS was split into two subsidiaries - EPS Distribucija Belgrade and EPS Trgovanje Ljubljana.

2023–present

In April 2023, the Government of Serbia decided to transform the company from the state-owned enterprise to a joint-stock company – offering 36.5 million of shares, each worth 10 thousand dinars (at the time, 85.26 euros each), for a cumulative worth of stock at 3.112 billion euros.[21]

Market and financial data

In 2011, company's total assets and the equity increased for nearly 100 percent.[22][23]

According to the consolidated annual report in 2012, total assets of this company dropped from €12.049 billion to €9.446 billion, and the total company's equity dropped from €8.909 billion to €6.867 billion, with the negative net income of 108.51 million euros.[24] In 2013, the company managed to become profitable for the second time since 2007, with annual net profit of €167.23 million. From 2013 to 2016, EPS has continued trend of posting positive annual net results. After years of posting positive net results, Elektroprivreda Srbije had negative net income of 11 million euros for 2018 calendar year.[25]

Subsidiaries

  • EPS Distribucija Belgrade[26]
  • EPS Trgovanje Ljubljana

Major power plants

Allegations of corruption

In 2011 EPS was under the investigation by the police and the national anti-corruption body. Allegations were related to RB Kolubara (EPS's subsidiary) management which was found to be implicated in a number of different schemes involving equipment procurement and leasing and the sale of coal.[27] In October 2011 authorities arrested 17 people, including two former directors of the Kolubara mine Dragan Tomic and Vladan Jovicic, eight executive managers and seven owners of private firms with which Kolubara conducted business.[28] In April 2014 the Organized Crime Prosecutor has issued an official order for the police to look into the allegations about possible wrongdoings at the EPS. The allegations were based on the report of the Anti-Corruption Council which showed discrepancies in the quantities of electricity imported and exported by EPS from 2010 to 2012.[29]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Organizaciona šema". www.eps.rs.
  2. ↑ "Izvršni odbor". Elektroprivreda Srbije (in Serbian). Retrieved 22 June 2023.
  3. 1 2 "Производња електричне енергије". eps.rs. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
  4. 1 2 "Bilans uspeha (2021) - Elektroprivreda Srbije" (pdf). apr.gov.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved 9 April 2023.
  5. 1 2 "Bilans stanja (2021) - Elektroprivreda Srbije" (pdf). apr.gov.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved 9 April 2023.
  6. ↑ "Основни подаци о привредном друштву". apr.gov.rs (in Serbian). Serbian Business Registers Agency. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
  7. ↑ "Производни капацитети". eps.rs (in Serbian). Archived from the original on 15 January 2018. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  8. 1 2 "About Us". eps.rs. Archived from the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
  9. ↑ "EPS". Energy Fundamentals. Archived from the original on 6 November 2013. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
  10. ↑ "120 godina elektrifikacije Srbije". vreme.com (in Serbian). Retrieved 18 July 2014.
  11. ↑ "Hidroelektrana Vučje". teslaways.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved 18 July 2014.
  12. ↑ "Vucje Power Plant – a World Heritage Gem". voiceofserbia.org. Archived from the original on 16 December 2012. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
  13. ↑ "Hidroelektrana "Gamzigrad"". teslaways.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved 18 July 2014.
  14. ↑ "Nine decades of hydroelectric power station "Moravica" in Ivanjica". vibilia.rs. politika.rs. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
  15. ↑ ""Oteta" elektrana – temelj buduće Elektroprivrede". te-ko.rs (in Serbian). Archived from the original on 26 July 2014. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
  16. 1 2 3 "Koliko EPS plaća parolu "Kosovo je srce Srbije"". insajder.net (in Serbian). Insajder. 19 June 2017. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
  17. ↑ "Sindikat EPS-a: Šta sutra i dokle ovako?". radiokim.net (in Serbian). 1 May 2010. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
  18. ↑ "Osnovano Javno preduzeće za prenos električne energije i upravljanje prenosnim sistemom "Elektromreža Srbije"". ekapija.com (in Serbian). Retrieved 18 July 2014.
  19. ↑ "Electric Power System of Serbia - Energy Community Priority Projects" (PDF). Energy Community. 28 September 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
  20. ↑ "Forbes visits Electric Power Industry of Serbia". South-East-Europe Business. 27 March 2013. Archived from the original on 24 June 2013. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
  21. ↑ "EPS zvanično postao akcionarsko društvo" (in Serbian). Tanjug. 8 April 2023. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
  22. ↑ "Основни подаци из годишњег финансијског извештаја за обвезника ревизије за 2011. годину". apr.gov.rs. Retrieved 22 August 2013.
  23. ↑ "Vrednost EPS-a povećana za četiri milijarde evra". euractiv.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved 22 August 2013.
  24. ↑ J., B. "Odakle u EPS gubitak od 290 miliona €!". ALO! (in Serbian). Archived from the original on 29 December 2014. Retrieved 22 August 2013.
  25. ↑ Obradović, Miloš (6 July 2019). "EPS napravio gubitak od 11 miliona evra". danas.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved 10 August 2019.
  26. ↑ "REORGANIZACIJA EPS Snabdevanje pripojeno je Elektroprivredi Srbije". www.blic.rs (in Serbian).
  27. ↑ Balkan insight. Investigation at Serbia's Kolubara Mine. Retrieved 12 June 2014
  28. ↑ Regional anti-corruption initiative. INVESTIGATING SERBIA'S FRAUD OF THE CENTURY. Retrieved 12 June 2014
  29. ↑ B92. Police to investigate power company EPS. Retrieved 12 June 2014
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