Senior Energy Modelling Consultant at the Mott MacDonald, Dr Nenad Jovanović, will participate in the RES SERBIA 2024 conference as a moderator of the academic panel that will bring together prominent professors from national and regional universities.
Nenad Jovanović is an energy expert with more than 10 years of experience in the development and analysis of the optimal electricity generation mix with the integration of renewable energy sources. He is involved in international projects related to long-term planning of electricity production and development of carbon zero scenarios. His role includes active participation in projects funded by international organisations and private companies in the areas of energy planning, policy and decarbonisation strategies. He has extensive experience in Europe, Asia and Africa in development of generation expansion planning and investment planning.
He is one of the authors of the first Integrated National Energy and Climate Plan of the Republic of Serbia for the period up to 2030 with a vision to 2050, which was adopted in July 2024.
During his undergraduate and master’s studies, he was a member of the High Education Expert Team of the Republic of Serbia, appointed by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development at the initiative of the European Commission. He provided guidance to higher education institutions in quality assurance, curriculum reform, national and European qualification frameworks. A significant activity was cooperation between Higher Education Institutions and commerce, as well as planning of dual education in the higher education system.
He has a joint doctoral degree from the Erasmus Mundus program “Sustainable Energy Strategies and Technologies”, which includes a consortium of universities from Spain, the Netherlands and Sweden. He began his international experience working as a researcher at the Institute for Research in Technologies in Madrid, focusing on the development of electricity market models, taking into account technical, economic and regulatory aspects. Before going abroad, he obtained a master’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Niš.