Nikšić received a solar park on the plateau of the House of Revolution, consisting of a solar tree, five solar benches and a solar canopy. The park, which represents a demonstration of the use of renewable energy sources, was made as part of the Iner project and was handed over for use by the Municipality of Nikšić and the citizens.
"It happened that this goes hand in hand with the project of 3000+ and 500+ installation of solar panels, so that Nikšić is in a way a driving town when it comes to energy efficiency and the energy revolution that should happen in the coming period", said the President of the Municipality Marko Kovačević.
According to Ana Milović Jasikovac, coordinator of the project implemented by the Agency for Local Democracy, and the main partner is the city of Ilok, the Iner project relates to intelligent energy management and the promotion of renewable energy sources.
"We are here to show the citizens that the future is here, that new technologies are here. Together with Cetinje, the Municipality of Nikšić is one of the first to receive a local typology of buildings and where five energy audits of public buildings have been carried out. It is an excellent basis of documents for the future projects of this type," said Milović Jasikovac.
Danijela Đurović, a representative of the Mebs-Mikromont consortium, which performed the works on the solar park, said that the total power of the panels that power the two batteries in front of the solar tree is slightly less than one kilowatt of the offgrid system.
"It is quite enough for these batteries to work for 2-3 days even on days when there is no sun, for all those wanderers who want to charge their phones and mobile computers here. The second part is the solar benches, four on the plateau and one on the playground, and the third is "solar parking lot with a total power of ten kilowatts, which works in parallel with the grid and is the so-called ongrid system," said Đurović.
The electrical engineering school "Vaso Aligrudić" from Podgorica and the Vocational High School from Nikšić received off-grid learning sets.
The Agency for Local Democracy, together with the Municipality of Nikšić, organized a two-day cross-border conference entitled "Renewable energy sources and energy management in the public sector in the cross-border area - common challenges and solutions", and representatives of the ministries of ecology, spatial planning and urbanism took part. and capital investments, Electric Power Company of Montenegro, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, local governments, non-governmental organizations...
The goal of the Iner project, financed from the IPA cross-border cooperation program of Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, is to protect the environment and nature, improve risk prevention and promote sustainable energy and energy efficiency.
The total budget of the project, which lasts 30 months, is over 1,1 million euros, of which the EU finances 85 percent of the funds.
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