Radomir Naumov
The European Agency for Reconstruction (EAR) donated €30,000, and the remaining €10,000 were provided by the Coka municipality.
Thanks to the reconstruction, the boiler room will be more efficient and cheaper to maintain, as well as environmentally friendly since it will use natural gas in stead of heavy fuel oil.
The "Jovan Popovic" elementary school has only around 450 students due to the extremely bad state of the old boiling room and last January classes had to be suspended for a few days.
The donation is one of 16 EAR projects being carried out in Serbia with the aim of improving energy efficiency. In the last three years, the EAR invested €5 million in these projects. Further on, it set aside €22 million as non-repayable aid through the World Bank project and the project for reviving remote systems in five Serbian towns.
Naumov said that thanks to the assistance and cooperation with the EAR, as well as with the help of sizeable investments in energy and electricity, energy situation in Serbia is extremely stable.
According to Naumov, energy balance has been achieved this year with almost no imported electricity. As for safe and stable energy supply, the previous period was one of the most successful, he concluded.