The World Bank has approved a €175 million loan for the first phase of a Serbian gas-infrastructure programme, Energy Minister Dubravka Đedović Handanović said on 25 September, according to SeeNews. The report attributes the approval and project description to the minister. [1]
The planned work includes a pipeline section between Niš and Velika Plana. The minister said it would remove transmission bottlenecks, provide access to gas from different supply routes and improve network resilience. [1]
ContextThe financing decision concerns the programme's first phase; the retrieved report did not give a construction start date or say that the pipeline section is already operating. [1]