Wind – Serbia – Construction to begin in March 2011 on Wind Park Vršac-Alibunar-Plandište

On 11 October the firm Energowind gave a presentation in the municipality of Plandište regarding its updated plans for a wind park in the southeastern part of Serbia’s Vojvodina region, near the country’s border with Romania.

Having obtained the necessary permits – 45 in all – and leased 50 land parcels from landowners for 25 years, Energowind expects to begin construction in March 2011.  Consisting of 35-50 wind turbines, the wind park will have a total capacity of 110 MW, and will cost an estimated € 150 mln to build.  It will be located in the villages of Velika Greda, Jermenovci, and Barice within the municipality of Plandište.  On 12 October the company formed “Wind Park Plandište d.o.o.”, a 100%-owned subsidiary within the municipality of Plandište, in order to facilitate payments to the municipality.

Energowind was founded in Vršac in 2005 and is owned by holding companies in the British Virgin Islands (83.3%) and the United States (16.7%). 

In late 2007 Energowind signed cooperation agreements with the municipalities of Vršac, Alibunar, Bela Crkva, and Plandište on a “joint approach in use of all forms of renewable energy, including wind.”  The firm received in October 2009 a national energy permit to construct a 400 MW wind park in Vršac, Alibunar, and Plandište, at an expected cost of € 543 million.  The company has not stated whether the 110 MW Plandište wind park is intended to be just the first phase of the entire 400 MW park, or if plans for the remainder of the park have been put on hold or abandoned.

As of August 2010 a total of nine 2-year energy permits had been granted for wind parks in Serbia, but to date no reports of actual construction have surfaced, so the Plandište wind park could become the first in Serbia.  News of actual wind park construction is also lacking from neighboring Macedonia, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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COMPANY DATA:

1) Energowind d.o.o.

Bulevar Oslobođenja 3, 26300 Vršac, Srbija

Tel.: 013-807454

Board of Directors:

  Chairman: Branislav Matić

  Director: Dimitrije Vukčević

Manager: Petar Slijepčević, petar.slijepcevic@energowind.rs

Head of Operations: Maja Turković

Website: www.energowind.rs (under construction)

Founded: 2005-12-05

Paid-In Capital: 68.200.000,00 EUR

Registry Code: 20107901

PIB (VAT): 104183426

Shareholders:

  Original Solution Corp., Tortola, British Virgin Islands: 44.0%

  Wind Energy Investment Corp., Tortola, British Virgin Islands: 22.6%

  Asporta Limited BVI, Tortola, British Virgin Islands: 16.7%

  Wind Power Co., Wilmington, Delaware, USA: 16.7%

Results for 2009:

  Total capital: 6.396.440.000 RSD  (€ 66.000.000)

  Operating income: 2.145.000 RSD (€ 22.150)

  Profit: 832.000 RSD (€ 8.590)

  Net profit: 412.000 RSD (€ 4.250)

  Employees: 2

2) Wind Park Plandište d.o.o.

Laudonovac BB, 26364 Margita, Srbija

Director: Maja Turković

Founded: 2010-10-12

Paid-In Capital: 500 EUR

Registry Code: 20683066

PIB (VAT): 106799658

Shareholder:

  Energowind d.o.o., Vršac: 100%

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REFERENCE:

2007-12-04: “Српски потенцијал за енергију ветра”

http://www.politika.rs/rubrike/Srbija/t49813.sr.html

2008-02: “Independence of the region with respect of energy based on local renewable sources or what is the similarity between the southern Banat and Gising region”, by Miroslav Kopečni, PhD, CESS Magazine, n° 4, February 2008, pp. 8-10.

http://www.vojvodina-cess.org/document.php?fileid=297&m=2&f=b16e559bff6cafd0585ad06474b50636&attachment=1&c=201 (English)

2008-11: “Obnovljivi Izvori Energije – Vetar”, by Tomislav Papić.  (On p. 9 there is a map of planned wind parks in the Vojvodina region.)

http://www.psemr.vojvodina.gov.rs/prezentacijeSajam2008/Vetar/Obnovljivi%20izvori%20energije%20T.Papic.ppt

2009-10-07: Project is granted energy license no. 312-01-00588/2009-02

http://www.ssl-link.com/mre/cms/mestoZaUploadFajlove/registar20102009.pdf, p. 82

2010-02-16: “Wind farm in Plandište as well - Energowind signed 45 contracts with parcel owners”

http://www.ekapija.com/website/sr/page/293735_en

2010-06-01: Republic Agency for Spatial Planning makes decisions regarding minor modifications to Energowind’s planning request for wind park at Plandište

http://www.rapp.gov.rs/media/Izvestaj%20JU%202.pdf, p. 33

2010-08: “List of Issued Energy Permits – Wind Farms - August 2010”

http://www.ssl-link.com/mre/cms/mestoZaUploadFajlove/List_of_issued_energy_permits_-_wind-aug2010.pdf

2010-10-08: “Prezentacija ENERGOWIND-a”

http://plandiste-opstina.rs/razno/prezentacija-energowind-a/

2010-10-12: “Prvi kilovati od vetra krajem 2011. godine”

http://plandiste-opstina.rs/razno/prvi-kilovati-od-vetra-krajem-2011-godine/

2010-10-11: “’Zeleni’ kilovati - Prvi vetroparkovi u Sbiji narednog proleća u Plandištu. Zakupljeno 50 parcela. Investicija 150 miliona evra”

http://www.novosti.rs/vesti/naslovna/aktuelno.69.html:303398-Zeleni-kilovati

2010-10-12: “Za izgradnju vetroparka još najmanje 45 dozvola”

http://seebiz.eu/sr/kompanije/energetika/za-izgradnju-vetroparka-jos-najmanje-45-dozvola,94855.html

2010-10-12: Company “Wind Park Plandište d.o.o.” founded

http://pretraga.apr.gov.rs/RepsisPublicSite/Public/Enterprise/BasicData.aspx?BusinessEntityId=4192254&RegistryCode=20683066

Map of wind energy potential in Serbia in January and July

http://195.250.98.80/media/New%20Folder/Zracenje%20sunca%20i%20energija%20vetra-tem.JPG