Financing Serbia’s energy future: How EPS is structuring loans, investments and multi-billion-euro CAPEX to rebuild and transform the power system

The narrative of EPS’s financial and operational stabilisation is inseparable from the utility’s evolving capital-expenditure (CAPEX) and financing strategy. After years of emergency borrowing, reactive repair spending and short-tenor loans, EPS is now managing a deliberate, long-horizon investment pipeline totalling several billion euros. These investments are structured not as ad-hoc line items but as a […]

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EPS as Serbia’s strategic energy anchor: Production, exports, financial recovery and macro-economic role

Elektroprivreda Srbije (EPS) today stands as the central pillar of Serbia’s energy system, emblematic of the transition from crisis-mode operations to stable, strategic utility performance underpinning macroeconomic stability, export earnings and industrial competitiveness. After the volatility of the early 2020s — characterised by deteriorating hydrology, rising import requirements and high European wholesale prices — EPS

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Financing the transition: How SEE utilities are funding multi-billion-euro CAPEX cycles and reshaping their balance sheets

If operational stability defines the present of South-East Europe’s electricity utilities, investment and financing define their future. Across the region, utility balance sheets are repositioning around large capital-expenditure programmes covering renewable generation, grid digitalisation, environmental compliance, flexible backup capacity and storage. The dominant source of capital is not speculative private finance but long-tenor, policy-aligned financing

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SEE’s power utilities: Production strength, trade balances, financial recovery and the new role in regional energy security

South-East Europe’s power utilities have moved from being passive state monopolies to becoming the most systemically influential corporates in their national economies. They are at once suppliers of baseload stability, hard-currency earners through cross-border electricity trade, primary vehicles for renewable-energy deployment, and quasi-sovereign financial institutions anchoring domestic banking and capital-market ecosystems. When looking across Serbia,

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Designing the backbone: How engineering outsourcing can fast-track Serbia’s mining fabrication strategy

A critical layer beneath everything previously argued about Serbia’s potential role in mining fabrication lies in a question few address explicitly, yet every serious industrial strategist understands instinctively: who engineers the complexity, and where does that engineering capacity actually live? Engineering outsourcing, when examined deeply, becomes neither a threat nor a supplement to Serbia’s mining

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From potential to profit: Making Serbia’s manufacturing ecosystem a bankable European export platform 2026–2030

Europe’s next industrial cycle is not a story of uncertain aspiration; it is a story of necessity. The continent has entered the execution phase of its Green Transition, infrastructure renewal, industrial electrification, defence-relevance strengthening, logistics modernisation and competitiveness rebuilding. That requires real factories, real equipment, real materials and real manufacturing ecosystems. It requires locations that

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Designing the green materials economy: Serbia’s strategic rise in glass, specialty materials and selective chemicals

Europe’s industrial transformation between 2026 and 2030 will not be powered solely by large infrastructure projects, renewable assets, electrification systems or manufacturing upgrades. At the heart of this transformation lies something quieter but equally decisive — materials intelligence. The Green Transition is fundamentally a materials transition. It demands new generations of specialty glasses, performance coatings, engineered

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Building Europe’s industrial engines: Serbia’s machinery manufacturing breakthrough 2026–2030

Europe’s industrial competitiveness in the late 2020s will not be defined solely by policy frameworks, capital flows or digital transformation rhetoric; it will depend fundamentally on whether the continent can secure sufficient capacity to design, build, adapt and maintain the machinery that underpins its factories, infrastructure, transportation, energy systems and emerging technology ecosystems. Machinery manufacturing

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Beyond steel: How Serbia can become Europe’s precision ceramics and advanced materials hub

Europe’s industrial future is no longer defined solely by steel, copper, machinery and conventional manufacturing assets. The real heart of technological competitiveness increasingly lies in advanced materials, and within that spectrum, few sectors are as strategically potent as advanced ceramics, specialty composites, high-performance refractories, functional technical materials and engineered specialty inputs for high-stress industrial environments. These

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From foundry to factory floor: Serbia’s rise as a high-value precision metallurgy hub in Europe 2026–2030

Europe’s industrial machine is built not only on spectacular technologies, world-class engineering brands and advanced automation systems, but on the relentless precision of its foundational components. Beneath every advanced manufacturing platform, transport system, renewable installation, energy infrastructure asset or industrial machine lies a universe of forged parts, precision castings, specialised metal components and metallurgically disciplined

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