Former president of the municipality of Obrenovac and acting director of the EPS, Milorad Grcic, has had his detention suspended since February 14, 2025, due to suspicion that he participated in embezzlement at JP Elektroprivreda Srbije
The Electric Power Company of Serbia is examining whether, how and at what price we can use green hydrogen
The price of electricity for the economy so far, in the previous year, amounted to 94 euros per megawatt-hour
Vesna Lakićević was fired for posting on social networks calling for a strike and protests and talking about "complete disarray in EPS"
Until today, Goran Perišić was the manager of the excavator in Kolubara, and then he was fired for supporting students
The new management of EPS, led by Dušan Živković, predicted a profit of 54 billion dinars, while the profit at the end of last year was more than twice as low
Dragoslav Ljubičić was one of the first to be fired from the Electric Power Company of Serbia after a protest by unions, employees and students in front of the EPS building. He is now suing the company and seeking reinstatement
Trucks with mud and stones are arriving at TENT again, burdening the operation of the power plant. The result is the import of electricity at high exchange prices, instead of cheap domestic production
"It is quite clear that Milorad Grcic alone does not have the intellectual capacity to design any money extraction. At the same time, the entire team that works on EPS does not miss a hair, nor does anyone pay attention to them," says attorney Čedomir Stojković for "Vreme".
EPS trade unionist Dragoslav Ljubičić, who has five years left until retirement, was fired for posting on Facebook. He told "Vreme" that repressive measures will be launched across Serbia these days against people who publicly deal with "arrogant thieves in power".
Dragoslav Ljubičić, a union member of Elektroprivreda Srbije, received a warning before his dismissal due to alleged violations that were added to the Code of Business Conduct only after he raised the alarm. If the amended Code is applied, whistleblowers will have to choose between silence and dismissal
The trustee of the EPS "Nezavisnost" union, Dragoslav Ljubičić, confirmed for "Vreme" that on Tuesday, January 28, he was served with a notice of dismissal in the TENT branch, where he is employed in the position of "OV-TK dispatcher".
AD EPS will spend the same amount of money for the import of coal this year for five million tons as for the complete production from RB Kolubara (something around 22 million tons). This will increase the producer price of the final product of EPS, electricity, by 50 percent, because those 27 million tons cost twice as much as if all 27 million tons were produced in Kolubara
The construction of a desulfurization plant at the Kostolac Thermal Power Plant was supposed to reduce pollution by 96 percent. It's just that in 2023, the emission of sulfur dioxide was 9242 tons higher than in 2022. EPS is responsible for 41,6 percent of air pollution in Serbia
They are suspected that, from the beginning of 2018 until the middle of 2023, as employees of EPS, they repeatedly transferred the money paid by citizens for the use of electricity to the accounts of their acquaintances who did not pay for electricity
The confidential data of the "Bajina Bašta" hydropower plant has been available on the Internet for months due to a hacker attack on the Electric Power Company of Serbia that took place in December last year. The Office of the Commissioner for the Protection of Personal Data does not see anything objectionable in this, and EPS has signed multimillion-dollar contracts with companies in the past years in order to increase the security of information systems.
Vice President of the Freedom and Justice Party, Dušan Nikezić, said that in the last two months, Elektroprivreda Srbije was once again forced to import electricity at "crash prices with multimillion-dollar losses".
Early this morning, whistleblower from EPS Nataša Prišić burned down the building she was using as part of her summer house in Sremska Kamenica. She suspects that the fire was arson. The day before that, she received a threatening message: "You will live underground." We will break your back. Take care". One of many
The lawyer of the manager of the Electric Power Company of Serbia (EPS) Ivica Zdravković stated that his client denied any connection with this case, as well as allegations in the media that he is close to Damir Handanović
Elektroprivreda Srbije has published a new price list of electricity which, in accordance with the consent given by the Council of the Energy Agency of Serbia on September 28 to the decision on electricity prices, will be applied from November 1
At Elektroprivreda Srbije, the personnel appointed by the former acting director Miroslav Tomašević are being demoted, and verified personnel loyal to the Serbian Progressive Party are being employed. Among them is the wife of the Minister of Mining and Energy Dubravka Đedović, the "Vremena" portal has learned.
The President of the Kolubara Trade Union, Radosav Krsmanović, said that around 150 workers are waiting for help from the Fund. Eight months ago, without a legally valid decision, someone decided to block the account of the EPS trade union and the account of the Solidarity Fund
Aleksandar Vučić and Siniša Mali, who essentially took over the management of the entire energy system of Serbia, do not want to tell the citizens either the real situation or their real intentions when it comes to the energy future of Serbia. They talk about it in principle, they talk about the green transition, about large investments, but nothing concrete is known or seen except for the increase in electricity bills.
Those familiar with the events at the Electric Power Company of Serbia told the "Vreme" portal that Tomašević's replacement was foreseen because, as a man from the industry, he managed to restore the system after years of destruction, which was not to the liking of the state leadership.
The Railway Infrastructure of Serbia awarded a security job in the amount of 160 million dinars to a company that, according to an inspection of the MUP's documentation, falsified statements in the public procurement procedure. The Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime is investigating this company and the people associated with it
The proposal to withdraw 11 hydropower plants from EPS and transfer them to a new company that would be formed with the state company MVM has been rejected for now. It is hard to believe that MVM sent the proposal without prior discussions with the country's political leadership, and only a month after EPS became a joint stock company.
The working body "Jedinstvo Kolubara" set new demands demanding the annulment of the legal form of the transformation of EPS from a public company into a joint stock company, as well as the resignation of the Minister of Mining and Energy, Dubravka Đedović.
