Wind power in Croatia

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Windpark near Senj, Croatia

Wind power in Croatia has been growing since the first wind farm was installed in the country in 2004.[1] In December 2010 the cumulative wind power is 69.8 MW.[2]

History[]

The first wind farm was installed on the island of Pag in 2004.[1] In 2006 another farm opened near Šibenik. On July 1, 2007 the Croatian Government enacted five bylaws on incentives to electricity generation from renewable resources, including feed-in tariffs.[3]

Currently in Croatia there's a total of 325 Wind turbines which generate total of 789.55 MW or electric energy, but with new turbines coming on-line all the time, it is expected that by the beginning of 2030 total installed power will reach 3200 MW, and with some additional 800 wind turbines under construction in Croatia or about to join the national energy grid Croatia could generate in excess of 3.2 GW of electric energy from Wind alone by the end 2025.[4][5] As of early 2020 Croatia generates around 28.3% renewable energy, Government hopes Croatia could generate around 37.5% renewable energy from wind and solar by 2030 and has adopted new strategy to achieve that target.[6] By the end of 2021 renewable energy in Croatia is expected to generate around 877MW from Wind and Solar alone or around 32% of all energy consumption from renewable energy source, Croatia exceeded EU's renewable energy targets and exceed that by a wide margin by 2020 country generated 28.3% of all its energy from the renewable sources of energy, Installed capacity at the end of 20201 includes 89MW Solar farms[7] and these are set to double in 2021 to 184MW installed capacity,[4] 803.1MW Wind farm are set to increase to at least 875MW by end of 2021, and other sources such as biomass and other sources will exceed 2020 figure of total 3226MW installed renewable energy generation by significant margin.[8][9] At present rate of growth and planned investments over next 5-7 year period, energy generated from Wind and solar should easily reach 40% of total energy consumption in Croatia with 50% highly probable, achieving targets set by Germany, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Austria. Although Croatian Government has set modest targets in terms of renewable energy share of total energy consumption, initially 20% by 2020 and now modest 37.5% by 2030 or 54% by 2050, the country is rapidly approaching targets set for 2050, at current rate of expansion of renewable sources in Croatia, it is quite possible by 2035 Croatia will meet its 2050 targets, some 15 years ahead.

List of wind farms[]

Wind farm Production capacity
(MW) 		Annual
production
(GWh) 		Wind turbines Year of commissioning Source
VE Senj 156 530 39 x Shanghai Electric 4.0 MW-136 – 4 MW 2021 [10]
VE Krš-Pađene 142 480 (planned) 48 x Nordex 2021(trial work)
VE Korlat 58 170 18 x Nordex N131/3600 – 3,2 MW 2021 [11]
VE Lukovac 48 110 7 x GE Energy 2.85-103 – 2,85 MW

9 x GE Energy 3.2-103 – 3,2 MW

2017 [12]
VE Poštak 44.2 100 13 × Siemens SWT 108 – 3,4 MW 2017 [13]
VE Danilo 43.7 100 19 × Enercon E-82 – 2,3 MW 2014 [14]
VE Vrataruša 42 125 14 × Vestas V90 – 3 MW 2010 [15]
VE Zelengrad 42 110 14 × Vestas V90 – 3 MW 2014 [16]
VE Ogorje 42 100 14 × Vestas V112 – 3 MW 2015 [17]
VE Kamensko-Voštane 40 114 14 × Siemens SWT-3.0-101 – 3 MW 2013 [18]
VE Bruška 36.8 122 16 × Siemens SWT-93 – 2,3 MW 2011 [19]
VE Ponikve 36.8 122 16 × Enercon E-70 – 2,3 MW 2012 [20]
VE Rudine 34.2 85 12 × GE Energy 2.85-103 – 2,85 MW 2015 [21]
VE Katuni 34.2 95 12 × GE Energy 2.85-103 – 2,85 MW 2016 [22]
VE Jelinak 30 81 20 × Acciona AW 82/1500 – 1,5 MW 2013 [23]
VE Glunča 20.7 53 9 x Enercon E-82 – 2,3 MW 2016 [24]
VE Pometeno brdo 20 50 15 × Končar KO-VA 57/1 – 1 MW
2 × Končar K80 – 2,5 MW 		2015 [25]
VE Jasenice 11.5 44 5 x Enercon E-70 – 2,3 MW 2020 [26]
VE Trtar-Krtolin 11.2 28 14 × Enercon E-48 – 0,8 MW 2007 [27]
VE Crno brdo 10.5 27 7 × Leitwind LTW77 – 1,5 MW 2011 [28]
VE Orlice 9.6 25 3 x Enercon E-48 – 0,8 MW
8 x Enercon E-44 – 0,9 MW 		2009 [29]
VE Velika Popina 9.2 26 4 × Siemens SWT 93 – 2,3 MW 2011 [30]
VE Zadar 4 9.2 30 4 × Siemens SWT 93 – 2,3 MW 2013 [31]
VE Ravne 1 5.95 15 7 × Vestas V52 – 0,85 MW 2004 [32]
In total 789.55 1,788 325 2004–2021

See also[]

References[]

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