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Western Balkan nations are seeing a boom in solar energy investment, which could help ease a power crisis that had threatened a shift away from coal, but are their power grids equipped for new energy feeds?
Since 2021, solar parks with 139-Megawatt capacity have been built, while up to 300-Megawatts of new solar energy is planned to be produced by the end of 2023.
The new plants can provide enough electricity to power eight cities – and that capacity will only increase, but the downfall is that transmission and distribution grids are not prepared to absorb such sudden feeds of solar energy.
The grids also need to expand in order to accept and balance energy generated during daylight. One solution is to store the energy in batteries, and legislation has been amended to require investors to secure battery storage of electricity in areas where the grid is already booked.
Source: sharjah24
