Belgrade District Heating Development & Modernization Strategy overview

Published on 10. January 2012., Uncategorized

 

The city of Belgrade and its suburbs are served by one of the largest district heating systems in CEE. Its main characteristics are:

• a consumption area of about 230,000 apartments with 13 million m2 of heated area and more than 3 million m2 of business premises
• more than 2000 GWh heat energy delivered
• about 2500 MW HoB installed capacity including 18 plants and 98 boiler installations
• about 200,000 tonnes of mazut (heavy fuel oil) equivalent consumed per winter, 80% of which comes from natural gas and 3% from lignite.

The equivalent capacity utilization is less than 1000 hours per year; about 140 kWh per m2 are produced and delivered to the system at the average winter temperature of +4.6