Turkey
In October energy licenses were granted for 13 projects:
Biomass: 1 project (2.0 MW)
Hydro: 3 projects (94, 34, and 6.8 MW)
Wind: 9 projects (of 50, 50, 50, 39, 37, 12, 9.6, 9, and 5 MW)
None of the projects that received licenses in October lie in Trakya, the European part of Turkey. The most recent renewable energy project licensed in the European part of Turkey was a 45 MW wind park in Silivri (Istanbul) that received a license in August. That license is for a park of 18 x 2.5 MW turbines, to be connected to the Silivri 154 kV substation and expected to be completed in December 2014.
Greece
In October energy licenses were requested for 86 projects:
Biomass: 9 projects (3.0, 3.0, 3.0, 2.8, 2.8, 2.5, 2.5, 2.5 and 2.3 MW)
Hydro: 2 projects (85 MW and 1.4 MW)
Photovoltaic: 46 projects (82, 46, 39, 35, 29, 28, 28, 26, 25, 25, 21, ... 1.1 MW)
Solar thermal: 3 projects (5.0, 5.0, and 1.2 MW)
Wind: 26 projects (108, 50, 48, 48, 36, 32, 32, 30, 28, 26, 24, 24, 22, 20, ... 3 MW)
In October energy licenses were granted for 74 projects:
Biogas: 5 projects (2.0, 2.4, 1.7, 1.7, and 1.7 MW)
Biomass: 1 project (4.7 MW)
Hydroelectric: 2 projects (1.8 and 0.8 MW)
Photovoltaic: 39 projects (38, 20, 8.1, 5.9, 5.2, 5.0, 4.9, 4.6, 4.6, 4.3, 4.0, 3.5, ...1.0 MW)
Solar heating: 13 projects (9.4, 6.0, 4.3, 3.3, 2.0, 2.0, 2.0, 2.0, 2.0, 2.0, 1.5, 1.3, and 1.3 MW)
Wind: 14 projects (317, 48, 36, 20, 20, 18, 16, 14, 14, 12, 10, 6.0, 3.6, and 3.4 MW)
Bulgaria
In October there was published the semi-annual update to the list of certificates of origin for renewable energy plants. According to the list the following 12 plants began producing electricity in the first half of 2011:
Photovoltaic: 8 plants (5.0, 3.9, 3.2, 3.0, 2.6, 1.1, 1.1, and 1.0 MW)
Wind: 4 plants (50, 2, 1.5, and 1.5 MW)
The small number of new plants coming online in the first half of 2011 – just 12 plants versus the 42 plants that began producing electricity in the second half of 2010 – is no doubt due to the Renewable Energy Act that the parliament passed in April and which went into effect on 3 May. From April through late June, when the new feed-in tariffs were announced for the period July 2011 - June 2012, many investors and developers put their projects on hold until they were certain how the situation would turn out. The available evidence suggests that a very large number of plants will come online in the second half of 2011.
Romania
To date 34 projects are known to have been granted permission in October for connection to the electrical grid:
Biomass: 2 projects (9 and 8 MW)
Hydro: 1 project (2 MW)
Photovoltaic: 9 projects (6, 5.5, 3.6, 3, 3, 2.9, 1.1, 0.8 and 0.2 MW)
Wind: 22 projects (147, 102, 83, 75, 48, 45, 33, 30, 10, 10, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 8, ... 2 MW)
To date 6 projects are known to have signed grid connection contracts in October:
Biomass: 1 project (3.1 MW)
Hydro: 2 projects (1.9 and 1.7 MW)
Photovoltaic: 1 project (0.0008 MW)
Wind: 2 projects (150 and 3.6 MW)
On 12 October the government issued an emergency ordinance – OUG 88/2011 – modifying Romania’s system of green certificates for renewable energy production. For additional information, see preceding blog post: Romania – Green Certificate System and Biomass Plants (in Italian).
Serbia
In October construction began on Serbia’s first biogas plant to run on animal waste, a 1 MW facility that is expected to cost € 5.5 mln and which is predicted to enter operation within nine months.
Macedonia
In October no new licenses were granted for energy production from renewable sources. In September licenses for energy production were granted for the following:
Photovoltaic: 2 projects (777 kWp in Dolani and 50 kWp in Bunardžik)
On October 13 the World Bank awarded to Pöyry Infra GmbH of Germany a contract for € 271,320 for consulting services for the preparation of an environmental impact statement for the Lukovo Pole water regulation project. The Lukovo Pole project will consist of 1) a covered feeder channel about 20 km long from the Korab catchment to the Lukovo Pole storage area and then onward to the Crn Kamen river, 2) a dam at Lukovo Pole 71 m high and 321 m long, and 3) a hydropower plant of about 5 MW on the Crn Kamen river. The project will involve a change in international borders: “The dam site is located very close to the Kosovo border. An agreement was reached between Macedonia and Kosovo in 2009 to make adjustments to their borders for locating the entire Lukovo Pole reservoir in Macedonia territory.” See also the project documents at Известување за намера за изведување на проектот акумулација "Луково Поле", довод на Корабски Води и МХЕ "Црн Камен"
Albania
In October two hydroelectric plants (of 3.9 MW and 2.5 MW) owned by a company in Skrapar were granted official qualification as renewable energy sources. In addition, official approval was granted for the owner of a 400 kW hydroelectric plant to pledge the plant as collateral to Credins Bank Sh.A. A license for energy production was also granted to a firm in Korçë that owns a 1.5 MW hydroelectric plant.
Earlier, on 26 September, it was announced that an indefinite extension had been granted to the license for energy production originally granted in 2008 – and subsequently extended in 2009 and 2010 – for a 135 MW biofuel combustion plant that Italy’s Marseglia Group is planning to build in Lezhë at a cost of € 1.2 bln. The plant is intended to produce electricity for export to Italy via a commercial submarine cable which is expected to be laid between Kallmet (Lezhë) in Albania and Zapponeta (Manfredonia) in Italy.
Montenegro
In October an application was filed for an energy license for the construction of a 630 kW hydroelectric plant at Lijeska in the northeast of the country. The project is expected to cost € 878,352, and will hook up to the 35 kV substation at Tomaševo.
On 30 September at 18:00 the government’s tender for the construction of a series of four hydroelectric plants (127.4 + 37 + 37 + 37 = 238.4 MW) on the Morača river closed. The tender process, which began in February 2010, concluded without any bid having been received from either of the two remaining qualified bidders – the consortium A2A & EPCG and the Italian firm Enel. The deadline had originally been 15 April but had been extended to 30 September at the request of Enel. Reportedly the A2A consortium declined to submit a bid because the return on investment from the project would be too low, particularly due to the height of the largest dam, a 150-meter high dam at Andrijevo.
On 29 September the government of Montenegro promulgated the country’s first feed-in tariffs for electricity from renewable energy sources. Until now the government has granted individual concessions for hydroelectric plants or has negotiated on a case-by-case basis power purchase agreements for the two wind concessions that are soon due to be built, but with this new regulation there are now feed-in tariffs for wind, biomass, solar (only if building-mounted), waste-to-energy, biogas, and hydro:
Category
|
Price
(in eurocents/kWh)
|
Wind power plants
|
9.60
|
Power plants using solid biomass
from forestry and agriculture from wood-processing industry | 13.71 12.31 |
Solar power plants
on buildings or construction structures | 15.00 |
Power plants using solid landfill waste
|
9.00
|
Power plants using gas from waste
|
8.00
|
Power plants using biogas
|
15.00
|
Small hydroelectric power plants
that produce up to 3.0 GWh of electricity annually that produce between 3.0 GWh and 15.0 GWh annually that produce more than 15.0 GWh annually | 10.44 7.44 5.04 |
Power purchase contracts are signed with the energy market operator (CGES A.D.), are valid for 12 years, the feed-in tariffs are paid monthly, and the purchase price during the contract period is automatically adjusted annually for inflation.
Bosnia & Herzegovina
In October initial construction licenses were granted for the following 2 projects:
Hydro: 2 projects (0.99 and 0.23 MW)
In addition, in October a public meeting was held to discuss the environmental impact assessment that had been submitted for a proposed 33 MW pumped storage hydroelectric plant.
On 26 October the Regulatory Commission for Energy of Republika Srpska (RERS) adopted 1) a draft ordinance on stimulating the production of electricity from renewable sources and for efficient cogeneration, 2) a draft decision on the amount of the guaranteed purchase price and premium (i.e., feed-in tariffs/premiums) for electricity produced from renewable sources and for efficient cogeneration, and 3) a draft decision on the amount of incentives for the production of electricity from renewable sources and for efficient cogeneration.
On 26 October the House of Representatives of the Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia & Herzegovina adopted a draft law amending the Federation’s Law on Electric Energy.
Croatia
Between 20 September and 28 October the following 13 projects signed power purchase agreements:
Biogas: 1 project (1.0 MW)
Biomass: 1 project (7.2 MW electricity + 12 MW heat)
Photovoltaic: 11 projects (29.8, 29.7, 29.6, 29.6, 29, 28, 20, 10, 9.9, 9.7, and 4.2 kW)
In October the following 25 projects received preliminary decisions on their status as eligible producers of electrical energy from renewable sources:
Biogas: 2 projects (1 MW and 1 MW)
Biomass: 1 project (7.2 MW)
Photovoltaic: 22 projects (999, 283, 137, 30, 30, 30, 29.9, 29.9, 29.9, 29.8, 29.7, 28, 13.5, 10, ... 9.6 kW)
In addition, the following 2 projects received extensions to their earlier preliminary decisions:
Photovoltaic: 1 project (30 kW)
Wind: 1 project (34 MW)
In October no energy licenses were granted for renewable energy projects, but in September a license was granted for a wood-burning biomass cogeneration plant (3 MW electricity + 13.5 MW heat).
Slovenia
In October production facility declarations were issued for the following 34 renewable energy facilities:
Biogas: 1 facility (0.93 MW)
Photovoltaic: 33 facilities (950, 450, 393, 246, 96, 88, 50, 50, 50, 49, 48, 48, 45, 40, 39, 32, ... 1.5 kW)
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