Focus on Energy, 2010 - Karanovic & Nikolic

33FOCUS ON ENERGYconstructed, says the Serbian Ministry of Energy. Apossibility of construction of one new 140 MW hydropowerplant Kupinovo on the river Sava will bestudied as well.The capacity of the total anticipated hydropotential isabout 600 MW and with the obtained energy licence theItalian partners have an option to build small hydropowerplants as well; this could increase their participation. Inaddition, 500 MW of wind power is also anticipated. Theactual physical realization of these projects is envisagedto start this year and the ownership structure will be definedwith an agreement between partners (companies)from Italy and Serbia. A precondition to transmit theelectricity generated in Serbia to Italy is the constructionof a submarine interconnection cable conduit for directcurrent with the capacity of 1000 MW. According to theinitial projections, this cable conduit should be set up by2013. In order to transmit green electricity from renewablesources of energy from Serbia to Montenegro, thepublic company Elektromreža Srbije (EMS) should soonsign a triple memorandum with Prenos from Montenegroand with Terna from Italy on construction of a new400 kV long-distance transmission system. Accordingto EMS, the point of this long-distance transmission issupposed to be located in West Serbia (in Bajna Basta).With the new 400 kV connection with Romania, whichis going to be established shortly, this would strengthenthe electricity transmission from Serbia to the Easternand Western Europe.