David said that the response of the Serbian side on whether it would participate directly in the project or collect the rights for its share of the energy potential in another form, is due in May 2010, at the next session of the Joint Committee, which meets twice a year. “We were informed about this idea.
All these are complex projects and we need time. The Serbian side supports all projects in the energy system. In May 2010, at the next session of the committee, we will give a response. The Danube is a resource for all riparian countries. Any project needs to be supported by all the parties involved.
The project envisaged by Bulgaria and Romania impacts us too, it has to do with water management, navigation, and will also impact the environment,” said Dragomir Markovic, director general of the state-owned Elektroprivreda Srbije Company. In his turn, Mihai David explained that, before giving Bulgaria a response on the new Danube hydropower project, the Romanian side had to request Serbia’s standpoint.
“The distance between the Iron Gates II and the Serbia – Bulgaria border is fit for using the Danube’s hydropower potential.
Of this, the Serbian side gets half. If we jointly build with Bulgaria a power plant downstream the Serbian-Bulgarian border, it will also process the hydropower potential of the Serbian side,’ said the Hidroelectrica director. The Danube technically feasible hydropower potential between Bazias and Macin – if harnessed – would be of 22 TWh/year, and Romania’s share thereof is 11.8 TWh/year, of which only 6.5-7 TWh/year are exploited.
The unharnessed potential of the 80 km-long segment between the Iron Gates and Serbia’s border with Bulgaria is of 400 GW/year, and if Serbia decides not to participate in the project with Bulgaria, Romania will have to supply it a share of about 122 GWh/year.
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