Posted on : 4/3/2018

On Tuesday, 27 February and, Wednesday 28 February 2018 a two-day training course was delivered in Technical school “23^rd May” in Pancevo to all users of the Energy Management Information System (EMIS) in public buildings in competence of the City of Pancevo.

Pancevo 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, ninety users from primary and secondary schools, kindergartens, city administrations, public and utility companies, local communities, cultural institutions in the territory of the City of Pancevo 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 Pancevo, 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 fourth 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 signing of Memorandum of cooperation between the UNDP and the City of Pancevo. The cooperation relates to promotion of the Energy Management System in Pancevo, and is implemented through UNDP energy efficiency (EE) project in Serbia in cooperation with the Ministry of Mining and Energy of the Republic of Serbia.