Country’s largest bioethanol plant found in Zrenjanin

Construction is underway to build the largest bioethanol plant in the country in Zrenjanin (Serbia).

To be completed in 2009, the plant will require one million tons of wheat, and 500,00 tons of maize on a yearly basis. It will in turn produce the following annually:

• 390,000 tons of ethanol;
• 370,000 tons of feed and fertilizer from the maize;
• 145,000 tons of feed from the wheat; and
• 155,000 tons of bioethanol.

The feed will be sold locally, with the ethanol being sold in Western Europe and Serbia.

The project will also include the construction of a river port, logistics centre and and R&D centre on the site. The plant will create 300 new jobs, and indirectly create work for another 1,500 people.

Fossil-fuel based power is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions. Green power from renewable energy sources emit no or low greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants. Green power can include electricity generated exclusively from renewable resources including wind, hydro-electric or solar power – or electricity produced from a combination of fossil and renewable resources. For more information on the generation and use of green power at the local level, please visit www.iclei.org/ccp.

Zrenjanin is one of 166 local governments in Europe that are currently Members of ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability. For more information on ICLEI and its activities in Europe, please visit www.iclei.org/europe.

Source: “Hungarian firms sign agreement on 380 million Euros project in Serbia”, Budapest Business Journal, 2006.