Solar energy has recorded significant development in recent years, with a 40 per cent growth rate in the European Union alone. Globally speaking, countries that participated in last year’s United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP28) set an ambitious goal of tripling renewable energy capacity by 2030. Considering this, the results of the Renewable Energy Sources 2023 annual report published by the International Energy Agency (IEA) should be mentioned. The importance of solar energy for achieving this goal is validated by the fact that solar capacities make up three-quarters of the total renewable energy capacities.
In the Republic of Serbia, the Electric Power Distribution of Serbia’s official website contains registers that provide insight into information about connected solar power plants and consumers in our country. The register of connected power plants that use renewable energy sources (updated on May 15) shows that 375 such power plants have a total installed capacity of 254,936.09 kW. Of that number, over 160 are solar power plants. 814 are operated by prosumers who are not households or residential communities, and their total installed power is 33,558.23 kW. These are registered in the Prosumer Registry (updated on May 24). Regarding the Prosumer Registry, where prosumers are residential communities (updated on February 7), three residential communities operate RES plants, which have a total installed power of 69.5 kW. Finally, the Prosumer Registry of households (updated on May 24) consists of 2,278 households that operate RES plants with a total installed power of 18,489.16 kW.
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The same website shows that the number of electricity prosumers has increased by about seven times in the past year and a half. Currently, the total installed power of RES power plants operated by prosumers is about 52 MW and many requests for new connections to the power grid are being processed. On May 21, 2024, there were 1,588 requests from industrial prosumers for connection to the grid, i.e. 415.6 MW of solar capacity, and 437 requests from households and four residential communities. Regarding solar power plants, the Ministry of Mining and Energy announced on May 28, 2024, that in that month alone, the total capacity on the grid exceeded 100 MW for the first time.
Regional countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina – Available data indicate that 1,671 electricity production facilities have been set up. The registry of the Energy Regulatory Commission shows that in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, electricity production from solar power plants is done in 1,082 production facilities with a total installed capacity of 128,451 MW and an expected annual production of 231,517.66 MWh. According to the available data provided by the relevant power distribution operators, 589 small solar power plants are connected to the power grid in the Republic of Srpska. Of this number, 47 are prosumers, and the total power of these facilities is about 102 MW.
Montenegro – At the moment, over 4,200 consumers in Montenegro operate 43,500 KWp or 43.5 MW of installed power worth of photovoltaic panels on the roofs of households and commercial buildings.
Prepared by Katarina Vuinac
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