Photovoltaic plants in Bosnia and Herzegovina — State and perspectives

This paper describes the current state of photovoltaic plants (PV) in Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H). It describes the ongoing trends in this domain and the ongoing legislation. It gives a certain insight of the future development in this domain. The first PV plant in B&H was built in 2012. Since then 180 PV plants were built and connected to the power grid containing installed capacity of 18MW. This makes 0.37% of installed capacity in B&H. Because of these particular reasons B&H must, with the utmost seriousness, begin implementing projects of construction in the field of renewable energy and other forms of green energy. When considering renewable energy, solar energy it far most impressive and promising area of investments. This paper has analyzed the potential that B&H has in the construction of PV plants. Four areas of interest were analyzed: the roof tops of apartment buildings, certain protective parts around the highways, water surfaces made by accumulation lakes and agriculturally inefficient surfaces. The total estimation of the power provided from the PV plants is: 3.27GW for the roof tops, 0.034GW for the highways, 1.15GW for the water surfaces and 4.52GW for the agriculturally inefficient surfaces.