MAP: Solar panels in homes across Serbia

Even though it is cheaper and less harmful to the environment, biomass remote heating has not reached Serbian citizens’ homes yet. Six out of 10 municipalities have dropped plans to build a heating plant with funding from a German Development Bank (KfW) loan, while the loan agreement is being kept from the public. Experts say there is no national strategy for utilizing our biggest renewable energy source and that the problem is that local self-government units decide for themselves.

In order for a company co-owned by Dejan Drecun, son of Serbian Progressive Party official Milovan Drecun, to build a biomass power plant in Veliko Gradište, a land lease tender was called specifically for that purpose in 2016. Even though the company had violated the contract from the start, it was terminated over two years later*, while the multimillion euro investment failed to materialize

The Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office in Leskovac dropped the criminal charges against Dragan Klisura, owner of Hidro-Tan and co-owner in the company Eco Energo Group, together with Nikola Petrović, best man of Serbia’s president Aleksandar Vučić