Successful Result after 33 Years of Operation

‘After more than three decades this generating facility still justifies its position of the pillar of electric power system. We expect the generation plan to be implemented, having in mind that 80% of the annual plan has already been achieved’, according to Luka Jovanović, the director of TPP Pljevlja.

The importance of this facility is particularly visible during years of unfavourable hydrological conditions, as it was the year of 2011 when this plant generated its record high 1452 GWh and satisfied even 34.4% of Montenegro’s total electricity requirements. Since the commissioning, the TPP ‘Pljevlja’ has generated around 31.688 GWh of electricity.

This year’s overhaul was completed successfully and on time, with the value of works amounting to cca €4.5 million. Continuous investments into this facility that reached €50 million during previous ten years have resulted in positive outcome as far as plant’s capacity increase and safe operation are concerned. 

‘This year’s overhaul meant completion of works so as to bring the cooling water system capacity to the necessary level through turbine condenser, thus ensuring conditions for the plant to achieve its maximum capacity also during the summer. In the past we reconstructed the boiler plant, replaced low-pressure turbine rotor and rehabilitated the system of governance, thus increasing the plant’s capacity from the installed 210 MW to possible 223 MW, with the same consumption and quality of the basic generating input’, said Jovanović.

Luka Jovanović

After the completion of reconstruction of electrostatic precipitator, concentration of particles in flue gases has been reduced to cca 30mg/Nm3 on average, which is below standards stipulating the limit value of 50 mg/Nm3. An important project estimated at €8.2 million was implemented at the end of last year, what resulted in absolute stability of the Maljevac dam.

‘It is necessary to think about construction of an ash storage silo, as well as about creation of possibilities to use it in the cement industry given that all the necessary conditions in Pljevlja have been met. It is possible to use this by-product of thermal power plant’s operation as a raw material for development of the base layer when building the road infrastructure. We have such examples in many developed countries’, highlighted Luka Jovanović.

There are currently 195 workers employed in the thermal power plant who, thanks to their responsible relation towards work, guarantee safe operation of this facility.

It is our employees who constitute our thermal power plant, because their devotion to demanding duties deserves full attention of the public. Thanks to them and to this facility, the electric power system survives as stable’, said Jovanović.

On the occasion of the Day of the ‘Pljevlja’ Thermal Power Plant, the Voluntary Blood Donors Club of Elektroprivreda Crne Gore has organized the campaign to collect 29 units of blood. Employees from the TPP Pljevlja gave blood, and they were joined by some members of the club from the EPCG Head Office in Nikšić and the 7th distribution region seated in Pljevlja.