In a rustic with greater than 300 days of sunshine per yr, and with the worldwide motion in direction of inexperienced vitality you’ll count on Croatia to be a frontrunner in photo voltaic vitality. You might be improper. Distinctive to all sunshine, free vitality, lower than 0.5 p.c of Croatia’s annual vitality provide is offered by photo voltaic vitality.
“Slovenia has 5 instances extra photo voltaic capability than Croatia, whereas Greece has fifty instances. It will be good for all our sectors to know the truth that the roofs of resorts, camps and different vacationer services are good for photo voltaic collectors and photovoltaic cells in addition to for LED lighting,” stated Greenpeace Croatia a full six years in the past. However nothing appears to have modified.
Breakdown of Croatia’s vitality provide by 2022 fossil fuels are nonetheless the main supply of electrical energy. A whopping 53 p.c of Croatia’s vitality provide in 2022 will come from fossil fuels, from home or imported vitality, and Croatia will import 2.12 TWh of electrical energy. If the photo voltaic vitality business is developed, because it ought to have been years in the past, Croatia will probably be utterly vitality unbiased. In second place is a renewable supply, hydropower, which accounted for 28.39 p.c. Actually, all the Dubrovnik-Neretva County is provided by hydro-electric energy. The nuclear energy plant in Krško gives 14.42 p.c. Wind energy is rising quickly in Croatia, a lot sooner than solar energy, and accounted for 12.49 p.c of vitality final yr.
And photo voltaic vegetation throughout Croatia generated a complete of 79 GWh, or solely 0.43 p.c of all out there vitality, placing Croatia on the backside of Europe by utilizing photo voltaic vitality.
