
Renewable electricity in Western Balkans: Support policies and current state
Author(s) -
Nikola Rakić,
Dušan Gordić,
Vanja Šušteršič,
Mladen Josijević,
Miroslav Babić
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
thermal science/thermal science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.339
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 2334-7163
pISSN - 0354-9836
DOI - 10.2298/tsci180512169r
Subject(s) - renewable energy , tariff , feed in tariff , electricity , incentive , electricity generation , wind power , natural resource economics , electricity retailing , business , photovoltaic system , environmental economics , electricity market , economics , energy policy , power (physics) , market economy , engineering , international trade , electrical engineering , physics , quantum mechanics
The use of renewable energy sources for electricity generation in the Western Balkan countries is analyzed in this review paper. Since those countries are part of EU or intend to be, data for Western Balkan are also compared with data for EU-28. The first part of the paper presents a brief overview of main promotion mechanism for electricity generation from renewable energy sources. As a dominant support policy, the feed-in tariff is more elaborated as an incentive measure and a de?tailed overview of the amount of tariffs and quotas for dominant technologies in the Western Balkan countries is presented. Furthermore, the current state of installed capacities and annual productions of three particular renewable electricity technologies (small hydro power, wind power, and solar photovoltaic) are analyzed in detailes. Based on presented data, there is a discussion and consideration of the impact of incentive measures on the electricity market and power production from renewable sources.