In 2024, We Will Have to Import 19% More Electricity Than Last Year – Production from Solar Energy Growing by as Much as 207%, But Share of All RES Remains Unchanged After All

Although the planned increase in the use of the solar energy in 2024 is 207%, of biogas 41%, and of wind energy 28% compared to the estimated energy in 2023, the planned import (with transit) of electrical energy is 19% higher for this year compared to the estimated import in 2023.

The total available energy in 2024 amounts to 17.057 million tons of oil equivalent (Mtoe), which is 4% more than the total estimated quantity of the energy for supply in 2023. The necessary quantity of primary energy will be secured 58% from local production and 42% from net imports, says the Decision on Determining the Energy Balance of the Republic of Serbia for 2024.

The gross production of electrical energy in 2024 is planned in the amount of 40,585 GWh, which is 1% more than the estimated production in 2023.

This year, the most electricity should be produced by thermal power plants, 25,894 GWh, or 64%, hydro power plants are expected to produce 10,504 GWh, or 25.9%. Wind farms should produce 1,309 GWh, solar power plants should produce 129 GWh, of which prosumers should produce 15 GWh.

In 2024, an increase in the production of primary energy from wind, solar, biomass, biogas and waste compared to 2023 by 1% is planned, and the plan is for RES to have a share of 30% in the structure of the envisaged total local production of primary energy for 2024, same as the previous year.

In this structure, the biggest share belongs to solid biomass, 58%, followed by hydro potentials at 30%, wind energy at 4%, whereas biogas, solar energy, renewable industrial waste energy, landfill gas energy and geothermal energy participate with 8%.

The planned use of the hydro potentials of major water flows (excluding the production of the RHPP Bajina Basta) is 13% lower than the estimated use in 2023, but on the other hand, the planned use of solar energy in 2024 is 207% higher compared to the estimated energy in 2023.

The planned use of biogas in 2024 for the production of electrical and heating energy is 41% higher compared to the estimated value in 2023, and the planned use of wind energy is 28% higher.

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Decision on Determining the Energy Balance of the Republic of Serbia for 2024

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