District heating for Živinice municipality

Bajazit Jašarević, Acting General manager of JP Elektroprivreda BiH and Asim Aljić, mayor of Živinice municipality signed Agreement on intention for realisation Project for district heating of Živinice municipality from thermal power plant ¨Tuzla¨.

By signing this agreement JP Elektroprivreda BiH expresses intention and readiness to provide heating energy of 70 MWt from thermal power Tuzla capacities for heating of Živinice municipality.   Project for Živinice municipality is to be realized in accordance with strategic objectives of EPBiH  regarding  extention of coogeneration at TPP ¨Tuzla¨ and TPP ¨Kakanj¨ as clean and efficient  techonology for generation of electricity and heat what will improve operation of the plants  and contribute to reduction of negative effects to environment and improve generation flexbility competitiveness in energy producing from the  thermal power plants .
The project should be completed by the heating season  2018./2019.  The realisation of the project is in line with  fulfilling  conditions from  Energy Community Treaty to which  Bosnia and Herzegovina is obliged  to implement directives and guidelines related to application of  efficient coogeneration.