About Creation and Reached Goals of Development Policy in The Area of Energy Efficiency, Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development in The City of Kragujevac

Abstract

This paper presents a review of the methodology development and a part of the results achieved in the process of establishing an energy management system of the City of Kragujevac (Serbia) and its communal services. The paper is an overview of influential factors in the field of energy management, analyzes their impact on raising the energy efficiency of individual municipal services and the city of Kragujevac, as a whole. The research team of Department of Energy and Process Engineering at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Kragujevac operates for some time through Regional Euro Energy Efficiency Center (REEECKG). Department, according to its development strategy is dealing with issues of energy efficiency for years, and with the establishment of REEECKG has became a part of the wider network of regional energy efficiency centers, which in many segments act as important factors in the creation and implementation of national energy strategy and policy and as a supporter of development in Kragujevac. Ministry of Energy and Mining (MoME) and Serbian Energy Efficiency Agency (SEEA) directly coordinate the work of REEECKG and other regional centers. The REEECKG gained experience through the implementation of R&D and commercial projects in the fields of energy management, environmental protection and sustainable development. Because of this experience, REEECKG was able to help the city administration to properly direct its energy and environmental development strategy and to create a benchmarking methodology for spreading best practice examples in the region. The paper also presents the most interesting scientific and research results achieved, in which participated RECEEKg, MoME and SEEA, and the experts from the government of the City of Kragujevac and municipal companies that were the direct beneficiaries of realized results of scientific research in the following areas: - development of energy management in municipalities and the establishment of energy planning at the local level; - improvement of municipal services by applying energy efficiency measures in public enterprises (Energetika d.o.o. (district heating company), J.P. Čistoća (communal waste management), J.P. Vodovod i kanalizacija (water and waste water management)); - Promoting the idea and realized projects in the field of energy management, environmental protection and sustainable development at the Festival of energy efficiency (starting from this year, during whole April).