For six successive winters, Serbia has had an electricity deficit – up to 40% on an average winter day. In the year 2000, 55 days of power failures were registered in Serbia. Average daily import of electricity in the winter of 2000 was larger than the maximum possible output of the country’s largest power plant, TENT B, or hydroelectric power plants Djerdap I and Djerdap II combined.
From 1975 to 1990, US$450 million was invested in EPS on a yearly basis (a total of US$7.5 billion). In the period between 1990 and 2000, less than 10% of planned funds were invested in repairs and maintenance works per year.