Elektroprivreda Srbije

Chronicle

22.August 2024. B. B.

Arrest in EPS: Two female workers suspected of transferring 4,3 million to accounts of acquaintances

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

Hydropower plant "Bajina Bašta" on Lake Perućac

Consequences of the hacker attack on EPS

09.July 2024 TS

Confidential data of the "Bajina Bašta" hydropower plant has been available on the Internet for months

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.

Electric power industry of Serbia

15.June 2024 AI

Dušan Nikezić: EPS is importing electricity again because it is bursting at the seams

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".

Fire in Sremska Kamenica

11.April 2024 MP/AI

Whistleblower from EPS: I suspect that I was set on fire, I am being threatened with death

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

Denial

30.March 2024. IN THE

EPS manager's lawyer: Zdravković denied any connection with the theft of decorations and the minister's husband

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

Electric power industry of Serbia

11.October 2023. Z.S.

Electricity price increase from November 1: New price list

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

Electric power industry of Serbia

07.September 2023. MN

Zaove and his wife: Who employs whom in EPS

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.

Society

21.August 2023. MJ

The account of the EPS union and the Solidarity Fund has been blocked

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

The energy future of Serbia

09.August 2023. Slobodan Georgijev

Policy of price increases and delayed reforms

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.

Serbia

15.June 2023 I.Đ.

Change at the top of the EPS: Miroslav Tomašević bothered the state

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 wonderful world of tenders

07.June 2023 Petar A. Živković

Who guards our tracks

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

Energy Industry

23.May 2023. BG

EPS: Hungarians want to buy hydropower plants

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.

Serbia

17.May 2023. I.Đ.

EPS: "Kolubara" workers blocked the highway and demanded the resignation of Đedović

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.

Criminal

11.May 2023. I.Đ.

EPS: Four people were arrested for money laundering

Four people were taken to the police on suspicion of abuse of position. Arrests and searches are taking place at several locations in Belgrade and Kruševac

Personal attitude

12.April 2023 Dragoslav Ljubičić

The government knows where the money is

There are no longer any legal impediments to the unhindered sale of EPS property, but neither are there any impediments to establishing a mortgage or any other pledge statement on EPS facilities, because EPS will not perform any activity of general interest in the future in accordance with the Energy Law

Electric power industry of Serbia

06.April 2023 MN

Consequences of EPS transformation: Without control and supervision

When the amendments to the founding act and statute of the Public Enterprise Elektroprivreda Srbije EPS come into force, its leaders will no longer be obliged to submit reports on assets and income, even though they will have public funds worth around 3,1 billion euros, warns Transparency Serbia (TS). . EPS will no longer be subject to the supervision of the Ministry of Economy or any other ministry

Personal attitude

01.March 2023. Dragoslav Ljubičić

EPS in numbers

Economist Dragan Radović has been drawing the attention of the public (who is interested) to the enormous economic consequences of the loss of electricity in "transmission" for years. As a unit for easier understanding, he uses the comparison that this loss is so huge that it represents the amount of the annual production of Djerdap 1; if it were from the thermal sector, he says that an amount of lignite of the volume and size of Rtanj mountain is burned to produce electricity that is delivered from the place of production, but never reaches the place where it would be consumed and, of course, charged

The European Union is introducing a tax on carbon emissions (CBAM) from January 1.

Criminal

22.February 2023. MN

Arrests in EPS: Six people damaged a public company for 7,5 million dollars

The Ministry of Internal Affairs detained six persons suspected of abuse of official position, actually for criminal acts that brought them great material benefit, reports RTS. The former acting director of EPS Milorad Grcic, under whom this public company collapsed, is not among them

Personal attitude

01.February 2023. Dragoslav Ljubičić

In whose interest is it?

It was not enough to speed up the request for the transition to a joint-stock company, nor is it enough that the estimated value of the company in the amount of 3,1 billion euros is below the level of any economic justification (the estimated value in 2011, at the time of the unique JP EPS, was 14,6 .XNUMX billion euros), but the credibility of the company must still be destroyed. How to do it? Well, the easiest way is by spreading a false image about the company, which is already vilified in the public eye

Comment

26.May 2022. Momir Turudić

Vučić and EPS: When politics produces electricity

It turns out that Serbia is waiting for an ever more uncertain winter without enough electricity because of what was done two decades ago, and not because of the idiotic moves of the current government in the previous ten years

Comment

28.December 2021. Radmilo Marković

Looking to 2022: Serbia in the hands of the "mice"

Although Milorad Grcic really leaves the head of the EPS, he will be replaced by a new Mica, who should first ask politics for everything, i.e. the party, i.e. leader, well, if the directive is not in accordance with the economic interest of the company, so much the worse for the company. Due to such a systemic personnel policy of SNS in state enterprises, it is difficult to give an economic forecast in Serbia for the next year

In the new issue

24.December 2021. Đorđe Vukadinović

Public meetings with the president: Once shocked, now Googled

Compared to 2014, the position of Aleksandar Vučić is significantly different today. He is more experienced, more confident, more relaxed. Acting is an undoubted element of continuity, but now with much more overpowering and slyness. He learned to combine "good" and "bad" news, albeit often in a grotesque way

Overview of the week

24.December 2021. Philip Schwarm

Three pictures of Serbia: Fear, dishonor and the street

What did the TENT collapse reveal? Why did Darija Kisić Tepavčević become a character from Goran Marković's films? And what is the name of the last democratic institution in Serbia

In the new issue

23.December 2021. F. Š

Serbia without energy sources: Incompetence worth hundreds of millions of euros

The gas storage in Banatski Dvor was emptied due to the unplanned consumption of gas for the production of electricity during the fall, and new quantities of gas have not been contracted with Gazprom. The directors of EPS and Srbijagas could not make that decision independently

Analyze

17.December 2021. Ivica Dobrić

The rhetorical obsession of the master of electricity: Anatomy of a discourse

Minister Zorane Mihajlović unequivocally knows who is responsible for the accident at TENT: first of all, the team that manages Elektroprivreda, then, according to the chain of responsibility, the minister herself. But precisely because she knows, she pretends not to know. Grdana and 101 Dalmatians can be so guilty

Overview of the week

17.December 2021. Philip Schwarm

Electricity from the Ministry of Finance: Burning people's money

What is home business the progressive way? It is best to imagine a sweaty Siniša Mali throwing stacks of bills into the furnace of the Obrenovac thermal power plant with his sleeves rolled up.

From the printed edition

16.December 2021. F. Š

Electric power industry: Complete collapse of the system

The source of "Vremena" says that not enough good lignite is sent to TENT and that is why it has already happened that the mixture of lignite with tailings is burned with the help of fuel oil: "They tried that this time as well, but now they were not lucky."