After a hundred thousand solar panels were installed in Serbia, it was entirely natural for the company MT-KOMEX that the next step was to expand its business in the region. With significant experience in constructing solar power plants – over 200 of them and an installed power of over 100 megawatts, it strengthened its presence by opening the company MT-KOMEX BH in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Complex legal regulations and procedures for construction, which differ in different administrative parts of BiH, including the Federation of BiH and Republika Srpska, are a big challenge for everyone who wants to build solar power plants. Radoslav Marić, director of MT‑KOMEX BH d.o.o., highlights this as a key challenge and adds that it is necessary to harmonize laws and practices in accordance with regional trends, citing the examples of the Republic of Serbia and Croatia that have adopted laws on the use of renewable energy sources.
– As for the business, turnkey construction is unique in Bosnia and Herzegovina and represents significant support for potential investors. MT-KOMEX BH operates on this principle – Marić points out.
From creating a project for the power plant, obtaining permits, delivering the necessary materials, technology and labor to the site, then assembling and installing panels, installing inverters and other necessary infrastructure, and finally checking readiness for commissioning – all these stages are included in the phrase “turnkey”, and which are therefore the responsibility of the entire team.
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The project with which the company will present itself and show how this works in practice is the debut project in Bosnia and Herzegovina – the Photovoltaic Power Plant (FNE) Rešetnica, which will be built in the town of the same name in the town of Goražde, in the Bosnian-Podrinje Canton.
In this case, the investor, Public Company Elektroprivreda Bosne i Herzegovina d.d. – Sarajevo, to get a fully functional facility positioned at about 900 meters above sea level, on an area of about 8,200 m2 (0.82 hectares), which is expected to produce about 1,411 MWh of energy annually.
Countries in the region have significant potential for solar energy, but the percentage of electricity from this source is still modest. Like in Serbia, hydropower plants improve the energy picture regarding electricity from clean sources in BiH, but thermal power plants are still the leading electricity producers. However, according to some estimates, the country has between 1,500 and 2,200 hours of sunshine per year, which is an excellent incentive to work on improving solar energy. Bosnia and Herzegovina in the south of the country reach over 2,300 hours of annual average. In contrast, according to the data, Neum, the only city in this country with access to the Adriatic Sea, has an average of 2,600 sunny hours per year.
The countries in the region, including BiH and Serbia, have more hours of solar radiation than many other European countries, and the best conditions are in the southeastern part of our country, including the southern parts of neighboring countries. Also, there are large areas that have not been used and could be effectively used to install solar panels, including the mountainous and hilly areas Bosnia and Herzegovina are known for.
MT-KOMEX BH is currently developing big ideas and projects, which will further affirm the company as a leader in the field of renewable energy sources, but this time also in the region, contributing to the transition towards a sustainable and environmentally responsible future of the energy sector.
Prepared by: Milica Vučković
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