Posted on : 12/28/2017

On Monday, 25 December and Tuesday, 26 December 2017 a two-day training course was delivered in a Regional Center for Professional Development in Education in Nis to all users of the energy management information system (EMIS) in public buildings in competence of the City of Nis.

Nis is among the first cities that has appointed an energy manager and started introducing the energy management system and activities provided for by the Law on Efficient Use of Energy.

During the training, seventy five users from primary and secondary schools, kindergartens, city administrations, public and utility companies, local communities, cultural institutions in the territory of the City of Nis received training in collecting and entering data into the energy management information system (EMIS). Data entered in the system will be used to monitor energy consumption and costs as well as to help local self-government to produce an annual energy consumption report and to monitor the realization of the energy savings target set on an annual basis by the Government of the Republic of Serbia.

Trainees are persons who are, on behalf of budget users of the City of Nis, in charge of collecting and entering data on consumption and costs of energy, energy sources and water in the facilities which they have been assigned for. This is the third training course for this category of system users.

Training was delivered by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Experts in the scope of the Project “Removing Barriers to Promote and Support Energy Management Systems in Municipalities throughout Serbia”.

The training was preceded by a meeting between representatives of the City of Nis and UNDP in the City Hall. The meeting was attended by Milos Bandjur, Deputy Mayor of Nis, Ljubisa Janjic, Head of the City Administration, Branko Andrejevic, Energy Manager for the City of Nis, and Maja Matejic, UNDP Energy Portfolio Manager. The main conclusion of the meeting is to further the cooperation between the City of Nis and the UNDP/GEF Project on the development of the Energy Management System in Nis. The meeting was followed by press statements on the importance and objective of the training.