Dušan Živković, CEO of Elektroprivreda Srbije, will speak at the RES SERBIA 2025 conference on the company’s strategic transformation, digitalization and investments in renewable energy sources.
Dušan Živković is an electrical engineer with decades of work experience, both in managerial positions and in investments, financing, engineering, design of energy systems, control systems and their implementation in the Elektroprivreda Srbije. He has been the head of the Joint Stock Company Elektroprivreda Srbije since June 2023, and since June 2024 he has been the CEO of the largest energy company in Serbia and the region.
Živković launched the EPS Transformation Program, changes in the organizational structure and improvement of operational and financial processes, which, along with the digitalization of business processes and services, aim to make the largest energy company in the region a market-oriented and profitable company, ready to successfully cope with the challenges of global markets, while at the same time focused on increasing customer satisfaction and achieving the goals of the Green Agenda.
With his team, he completed the construction of the B3 unit in Kostolac, with a capacity of 350 megawatts, the first major power plant in Serbia after more than three decades. At the same time, in the largest thermal power plant in the Balkans in TENT A, a major environmental project has been completed – the construction of a desulphurization plant. He is one of the key people who initiated investments in the use of renewable energy sources in EPS. The solar power plant “Petka” has been put into trial operation, and the construction of the first wind park of EPS in Kostolac is in the final stages. He recognized the importance of the construction of the Bistrica Reversible Hydro Power Plant, the most important project for the further development of the RES sector, as well as the necessity of implementing the 1 GW solar power plant project.
It has significant contacts with numerous international companies in the energy sector, with successful cooperation and exchange of experience necessary for continuous improvement and development, as well as restructuring processes of Serbian energy companies. Unequivocally supporting the Serbian economy, through the projects he has created, conditions for their development, but also support them to compete as successfully as possible in markets around the world.
He began his professional career in “Jugel Engineering” on the construction of the National Dispatch Center. For two decades, he worked and managed investments, renewable energy sources and development of production capacities within EPS, and then managed the Sector for Renewable Energy Sources in the distribution network. He has actively participated in the preparation of long-term investment and development plans, as well as in numerous projects of revitalization of equipment in open-pit mines, thermal power plants, hydroelectric power plants, transmission and distribution networks, environmental protection projects, RES development and energy efficiency. He has also dedicated part of his career to the introduction of smart metering at the distribution level, creating conditions for a significant participation of RES, but also the introduction of some new technologies in the Serbian energy sector.