Portal on Energy Prosumers in Serbia Launched

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The Environment Improvement Center said in a release on Dec. 5, that it had prepared and launched a portal, which aimed to support and provide information to citizens about installation of solar power plants and how to become a prosumer, an individual who both produces and consumes energy. The portal is available at: prozjumer.rs.

“Internet portal portal prozjumer.rs is intended for all who want to become prosumers and install solar panels on the roof of their family houses, and also to all who want to learn more about possibilities of self-consumption of photovoltaic energy in households,” the director of the Environment Improvement Center, Ivana Jovcic, said, according to the release.

In the first 11 months of this year, the number of prosumer households in Serbia  tripled, rising from 602 in 2022, to 1,846 households so far in 2023, and is continuing to grow.

More than 90 cities and municipalities have invited applications for subsidies for energy efficiency renovation of family houses, offering incentives for several energy saving measures. Subsidies for an individual energy efficiency measure cover up to 50 percent of the cots, and for several such measures grants go up to 65 percent of the costs. Local self-governments provide incentives for solar plants with a capacity of up to 6 kW, or up to RSD420,000.

With the electricity prosumer scheme, households can become producers of solar power for self-consumption, where the potentially generated excess electricity can be fed back to the grid or used when needed. The Law on renewable energy sources allows households to mount solar panels with a capacity of up to 10.8 kW.