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National Energy and Climate Planning in Serbia: From Lagging Behind to an Ambitious EU Candidate? Batas Bijelic, Ilija Rajakovic, Nikola European Green Deal Producción Científica Just in the immediate neighbourhood of the European Union (EU), the Republic of Serbia, one of the Western Balkan (WB) EU candidate countries, is lagging behind in the process of energy transition regardless of technological advances and policy instruments available. The EU created a momentum for energy transition acceleration with the European Green Deal, which has been forwarded to the WB through the Energy Community secretariat in the form of the Green Agenda; generally speaking, response in the form of National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs) is expected in the short term. The Republic of Serbia’s Low Carbon Development Strategy with Action Plan (LCDSA) and the current Energy Strategy will be analysed, commented on, and improvements will be suggested for the acceleration of energy transition, based on the newest findings from the simulation-based optimization techniques using the sector coupling approach to achieve ambitious variable renewable energy shares. The motivation of this research is to provide decision makers in Serbia with the best available insights regarding sustainable energy system planning tools and possible shortcuts for delayed planning of activities. In addition, the purpose is to improve Serbia’s chance of benefitting from adoption of these strategies in the country’s faster transition towards EU membership. The research compares two scenarios to illustrate a possible policy shift from small hydro power plants to photovoltaics (PV). A further increase in PV and wind power plants has been simulated using the EnergyPLAN to achieve expected scenarios of 40% renewable energy share and some more ambitious ones—up to 80%, which is realistic only with the sector coupling approach. 2024-05-09T11:34:08Z 2024-05-09T11:34:08Z 2021 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Batas Bijelic, I., & Rajakovic, N. (2021). National Energy and Climate Planning in Serbia: From Lagging Behind to an Ambitious EU Candidate?. International Journal of Sustainable Energy Planning and Management, 32, 47–60. https://doi.org/10.5278/ijsepm.6300 2246-2929 https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/67463 10.5278/ijsepm.6300 47 60 60 International Journal of Sustainable Energy Planning and Management 32 spa https://journals.aau.dk/index.php/sepm/article/view/6300 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported Aalberg Univesitet SI