Kragujevac: 95.8 Million Dinars for 462 Home Retrofits

A total of 95.8 million dinars reached 462 households in Kragujevac today, through subsidy contracts for energy retrofitting jointly funded by the Ministry of Mining and Energy and the City of Kragujevac following a public call issued in 2025. Minister Dubravka Djedovic Handanovic and Kragujevac Mayor Nikola Dasic handed the contracts to residents in person.

The support is not the same for every recipient. Of the 462 households, 70 fall into the socially vulnerable category and have up to 90 percent of the works covered by the state. The remaining households receive up to 50 percent of the funds, or up to 65 percent if they opted for a package combining several measures at once. According to the minister, 40 households specifically chose solar power plants.

“As many as 40 households decided to install solar power plants,” Djedovic Handanovic said at the contract handover in Kragujevac, adding that the investments bring both lower energy consumption and reduced costs for residents.

How Much Can Each Measure Save?

The minister also offered concrete savings estimates, measure by measure:

Replacing old windows and doors can cut heat loss and bring savings of around 20 percent, while installing facade thermal insulation can reduce energy consumption by around 30 percent. Significant energy savings of around 70 percent can be achieved by using heat pumps, while solar panels allow households to cover part of their own electricity consumption from renewable sources, feeding any surplus back into the grid.

With this round, Kragujevac continues a program that has been running for more than a year. Over the past five years, with 367 million dinars in state support, the city has energy retrofitted 1,253 households. The current 462 contracts, worth 95.8 million dinars, account for nearly a third of that five year total of recipients, signed in a single round.

Nationwide, the “Clean Energy and Energy Efficiency for Citizens” project, which the ministry runs in partnership with the World Bank, has so far supported more than 35,000 households. The ministry’s goal is to raise that number to around 50,000 by the end of 2027.

Part of the cooperation between the ministry and the city extends beyond individual households. Energy retrofits have also been supported at two elementary schools, “Dragisa Lukovic Spanac” and “Djura Jaksic,” where windows, doors and lighting were replaced, thermal insulation was installed and the heating system was upgraded. Officials announced that work on the conditions for retrofitting “October 21” Elementary School will follow.

The largest single investment planned for Kragujevac targets the district heating system: 6.8 million euros for heat pumps that will use waste heat from the State Data Center to generate thermal energy. Work is expected to begin before the end of the year.

This outlet has previously reported on another form of state assistance to households, well subsidies worth up to 500,000 dinars. Unlike that measure, energy retrofitting is a program Kragujevac has carried out continuously for several years, and the number of beneficiaries has now passed 1,700 households.