A Serbian company had completed the largest solar power plant by investing EUR 3 million in Kladovo.
Serbia’s Minister of Mining and Energy Aleksandar Antic has inaugurated the plant.
In addition to the largest hydroelectric power station in the country, Djerdap, Kladovo now has the largest solar plant also.
These facilities make this eastern Serbian municipality a large electricity supplier of the region.
Solaris Energy has built the plant and it can supply about half the power Kladovo needs during the summer.
The new solar plant covers 4.5 ha of land in the village of Velesnica, near the town of Kladovo. The solar panels themselves have 13,600 square meters.
The output capacity is 2 MW, and its second block was opened last week.
Renewable energy sources account for 21 percent of Serbia’s power production at the moment and is expected to go up to 27 percent by 2020.
Serbia continues the policy of subsidizing renewable energy sources and providing privileged supplier contracts for those who produce power from renewable sources, noted Antic.
In next few years, billions of euros of investments in wind energy are planned.
The investor would build two more blocks of 2 MW, which would cost another EUR 3 million, stated, Milos Kostic, head and co-owner, Solaris Energy.
The construction of the first and second blocks involved a significant number of Serbian companies.
Sabeena Wahid
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