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Transbalkan Corridor Transmission Line put into operation

Belgrade, 21 December 2017

Prime Minister Ana Brnabic and Minister of Mining and Energy Aleksandar Antic today in "Elektromreza Srbije" (EMS) officially launched the Transbalkan Corridor for Electricity Transmission from Pancevo to Resica, in Romania, 68 km long.

Brnabic pointed out that this is the most modern "energy highway" and that Serbian energy in this way stays on its feet, assessing that this is a fantastic success and that, in addition to investments in road and rail infrastructure - Corridors 10 and 11, the Moravian Corridor and the railway corridor, we are also developing energy infrastructure.

She sent congratulations to the entire team who finished the job three months before, inviting everyone else to look at this case.

The Prime Minister pointed out that it is good that domestic companies were involved in this task, and reminded that many projects in the past three years were initiated and completed, for example, the Clinical Centre Nis.

The EU supports such projects because this energy corridor is one of the priorities, and for it about €12 million was allocated in 2014, Brnabic pointed out, and explained that this money was channeled to floods, so EMS therefore invested €27 million from its funds in the project.

She said that it is good that we can influence the European funds, but that we can now count on our own money.

Antic said that today is an excellent day for the Serbian energy system, because it is a capital project that will bring benefits to Serbia in the long run, increase security of supply and further reduce losses.

A pan-European power corridor will pass through our country, which will allow the electricity to travel from the east to the west. It has a capital impact on our overall transmission opportunities and reduces network losses, which are otherwise the smallest in Europe, he said.

The Transbalkan corridor will connect Romania, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro and Italy to the transmission lines. The pipe line goes from Resica in Romania to Pancevo, Obrenovac and Bajina Basta, then to Pljevlja in Montenegro and Lastva, and then under the sea to Vilanova in Italy.