POSSIBILITIES FOR REDUCING CO2 EMISSIONS IN PUBLIC BUILDINGS USING BIOMASS

Abstract

EU plans in the area of climate and energy until 2050 are presented in two strategic documents: Energy Roadmap 2050 and Roadmap for moving to a competitive low carbon economy in 2050, and they foresee goals for reducing greenhouse gases emissions by 80-95% compared to the 1990. At the moment, Serbia does not have an adopted climate strategy, but the drafting of the Law on Climate Change is underway. Municipality of Priboj is one of the local governments that has made the most progress in replacing fossil fuels with biomass. This paper presents a drastic reduction of emissions in the example of four facilities (a kindergarten, the Community Center, the City Hall and one primary school), with a total area of 7800 m2 , which have a common boiler room. The boiler room was previously using coal, and now it is running on pellets and wood chips. The power of the new boiler room is 0.9 MW. The reduction of total annual thermal energy consumption in MWh is 36% - from 2,635.57 MWh consumed in 2016 to 1,678.11 MWh in 2018, while CO2 emissions were reduced from 586.68 t in 2016 to 120.62 t in 2018, or by as much as 79%.