Project Name：Green Energy Special Fund (GESF)-Subproject 4: BiH Elektro-Bijeljina Smart Metering Expansion Project

Project status：Completed projects

Cooperating Country：Eastern Europe, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Project Description：

The Project supported the reconstruction of medium and low-voltage networks and substations as well as the installation of smart metering including an automatic meter management system (“AMM”) in the Republika Srpska, BiH.

Implementation Start Date：2018-09-19

Implementation End Date：2023-12-29

Project Objectives：

1. Reducing the overall distribution losses from 8.83 per cent to approximately 6.5 per cent, corresponding to electricity savings of around 17 GWh per year; 2. Improving the quality of power supply; 3. Facilitating new renewable connections to the distribution network, mainly small PV and small HPP; and 4. Improving customers' power consumption behaviors.

Executing Agency：ZEDP Elektro-Bijeljina A.D. Bijeljina

Implementation Arrangement：

The TaiwanICDF, through its contribution to the GESF, co-financed the project with the EBRD by providing a loan to ZEDP Elektro-Bijeljina A.D. Bijeljina, a state-owned power distribution company servicing approximately 25 per cent of consumers (13 municipalities) in the Republika Srpska, BiH.

Signing Date：2018-09-19