Energetics such as electricity, coal and oil are exported from the Republika Srpska to Serbia in huge quantities, often to the detriment of the citizens of the RS, whose land is being destroyed due to the opening of new mines. The question to which the public does not have an answer because both the government and the electricity companies do not want to talk about it is under what conditions and prices these energy products are sold and even loaned between Serbia and the RS.
According to rare and poorly available information, as much as 90 percent of the total export of energy products from Republika Srpska is imported by Serbia, and this is supported by information about the accelerated opening of coal mines, even without a permit, such as the one in Bistrica near Prijedor, and then the round-the-clock loading of excavated coal into trucks with Serbian license plates.
Journalists from the portal CAPITAL and “Nove Ekonomije” jointly researched the data on the export of energy products of the Administration for Indirect Taxation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the last few years with the consolidated reports of the Electric Industry of Serbia, and determined the explosive growth of exports from Bosnia and Herzegovina and imports into Serbia.
Serbia imported the most electricity in 2022, from “Elektroprivreda Republika Srpska”, worth 9.82 million euros.
That year, over 500 million euros worth of electricity was exported from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
