Kostolac

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Костолац Kostolac

Country:	Serbia
Subdivision:	Braničevo District, Požarevac municipality
Location:	?
Population: 2002	9,313
Area code:	012
Postal code:	12208
License plates:	PO

Kostolac (Костолац) is a small Serbian town on the Danube river in the Braničevo District, located where Viminacium used to be. It is situated in the municipality of Požarevac. Kostolac is a center of area called Stig and home of thermo-power plants and coal mines.

1 Demographics
2 History
3 Industry
4 Features
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] Demographics

Ethnic groups in the town (2002 census):

Serbs = 6,913
Roma = 1,756
others

[edit] History

Viminacium, a major city of the Roman province of Moesia, and the capital of Moesia Superior was situated at this location.

Đorđe Vajfer opened coal mines in Kostolac. During WWII, Germans constructed first power plant "Mali Kostolac" ("small Kostolac"). After the war, people from every where came to build it.

[edit] Industry

Kostolac have two thermal power plants:

TPP "Kostolac A" – with 2 blocks – total available capacity of 281 MW and production of 716 GWh
TPP "Kostolac B" – with 2 blocks – total available capacity of 640 MW and production of 3,027 GWh

Thermal power blocks of Economic Assosiation "Thermal Power Plants and Mines Kostolac" plc with total available capacity of 921 MW, make 11 percent of the total available capacity of the electric power system of Serbia.

Electric power production in Economic Assosiation "Thermal Power Plants and Mines Kostolac" plc of 3,743 GWh makes almost 11 percent of the total electric power production in EPS's system.

Thermal power plants Economic Assosiation "Thermal Power Plants and Mines Kostolac" plc use fuel lignite produced at open-pit mines "Cirikovac" and "Drmno", for electric power production.

In addition to electric power, TPP "Kostolac A" produces heating energy for heating the cities of Kostolac and Požarevac.

[edit] Features

Near Kostolac is the archeological site at Viminacium, a former Roman outpost with wide streets, luxurious villas, extensivebaths and an amphitheater, just recently opened to the public.