Ten days ago, the Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure rejected, for the fourth time, EPS's request to issue a use permit for a part of the Kostolac thermal power plant
Unit 3 operates in Kostolac generates electricity without a usage permit, although according to the Law on Planning and Construction, that permit is a necessary condition for starting work, writes Forbes. U EPS- told this newsroom that the facility is already in operation and that it has a positive Report of the commission for the technical inspection of the facility, in which it was stated that it is suitable for use.
On June 3, the competent Ministry made a decision rejecting as incomplete the request of the investor, more precisely EPS, for the issuance of a use permit for works on the construction of a wet electrostatic filter, in block B11 of the Kostalac B thermal power plant.
Attempt after attempt
Since November 2024, this is EPS's fourth attempt to obtain a use permit, Beta agency reports.
The investor's application for a use permit was previously rejected in June of this year. Within the legal term of 30 days, EPS submitted the so-called agreed request, that is, he submitted a request in which the deficiencies were eliminated. However, this time too, the competent authority determines that the agreed request is incomplete and that the formal conditions for issuing the permit have not been met.
There are about a dozen such objections and they mostly refer to defects that need to be removed in the Record of Technical Inspection and in the Main Book... Among other things, it is stated as a defect that it is unclear why some previously correct documents have now been changed.
Incorrect
For example, in the rejection of the Ministry of Construction, it is stated, among other things, that it is unclear "why the previously correct statement with findings for PIO (constructed building project) in this request was changed to an incorrect statement with findings for PZI (project for construction)".
According to the current Law on Planning and Construction, "a building for which a construction permit is scheduled to be issued can be used according to a previously obtained use permit." This is stated in Article 158 of the law.
When this provision is applied to a specific case, the wet electrostatic precipitator should not be in operation until a positive response from the Ministry of Construction is received. In other words, until the facility receives a use permit, since it received a construction permit back in 2018, data from CEOP show.
Despite this provision, the EPS confirmed to Forbes Serbia that the filter is in operation and that it is a modern and highly efficient energy plant that meets all domestic and European environmental protection standards.
"The electrostatic filter is the basic element for reducing the emissions of fly ash particles. The wet electrostatic filter is its support in order to further reduce the emission of particles. The wet electrostatic filter is in operation," they said in EPS.
How was the construction going?
The framework agreement with the Chinese partners, namely the company CMEC, was signed back in 2010. A few years later, a contract was signed on the construction of a new unit at the Kostalac B thermal power plant. However, the Chinese started building that power plant only in 2017. And then it was agreed that the new block will be ready in three years, 2020 to be exact.
However, its completion was postponed several times. At first in 2022, so that the entire work would be completed only in 2024. Block B3 was put into one-year trial operation only in the fall of last year, and at the end of June of this year, it received a usage permit.
For the construction of that new plant, the first since 1991, Serbia borrowed from the Chinese EXIM Bank for the amount of 608,3 million dollars. The total value of the project is estimated at 715,6 million dollars, which will be compensated from the EPS loan and the Kostolac B thermal power plant itself. The project also included the expansion of the surface mine of the Drmno mine, which provides coal for the thermal power plant.
Source: Forbes/New Economy/Beta
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