Geothermal Energy Use, Country Update for Serbia

Abstract

The territory of Serbia has favourable geothermal characteristics. There are more than eighty hydrogeothermal systems within four geothermal provinces. Annual production from geothermal sources in Serbia is about 460 GWth. The commonest use of geothermal energy in Serbia is the traditional ones: balneology and recreation. In Serbia nowadays at over 50 locations the thermal water is being used for balneology, sport and recreation, while the district heating systems based on geothermal energy are rather rare. The use of the geothermal energy from shallow systems is in expansion where the number of residential and office building using heat pumps for heating, air-conditioning and cooling and sanitary hot water is rising on monthly basis. In addition, Serbia is receiving funds from different sources in order to level up the renewable energy sources use and improve energy efficiency in order to fullfill the scope to increase total share of all renewable energy sources in gross final energy consumption to 27%.