Nine companies have applied to obtain construction permits for as
many photovoltaic (PV) power plants and two have applied to build small hydro
power plants in Bosnia’s Muslim-Croat Federation, the entity's energy ministry
said on Friday.
Applications for construction permits for PV plants have
been submitted by local companies PTP Sola, Kalim profil, Kalim, Orkan 1, Elcom,
Eco Energy, Compt-IT, Door-Design and DSM-Trade, the Federation's energy
ministry said in a statement posted on its website.
The capacity of the
planned PV plants varies from 12.5 kW to 149.76 kW, with planned annual
production ranging from 15.27 MWh to 187 MWh.
Grid BH and Eko-Energy
applied for permits to build one small hydro power plant each. Grid BH plans to
build a plant with an installed capacity of 2,795 kW and an annual production of
13,134 MWh, while Eko-Energy intends to build a plant with a capacity of 980 kW
and annual production of 4,007 MWh.
The Muslim-Croat Federation is one of
the two entities that form Bosnia and Herzegovina. The other is the Serb
Republic.