Address of the serbian border town pumped storage power station

When will a new hydropower plant be built in Serbia?

The start of works is planned for the second half of 2024, according to Minister of Mining and Energy Dubravka Đedović. Serbia also plans to build a pumped storage hydropower plant called Bistrica, with a capacity of 628 MW, which will be located downstream of the existing Bistrica hydropower plant.

How will the Bistrica modernization project benefit Serbia?

The Bistrica modernization project and the construction of the Central Balkan Corridor will help increase Serbia’s renewable energy capacities as well as transmission capacities by connecting it with its eastern and western neighbors.

Will Srpska build a hydropower plant on the Bistrica?

At the same time, the Republic of Srpska, one of the two political entities in neighboring Bosnia and Herzegovina, intends to build three cascading hydropower plants on the Bistrica, a different river, near the town of Foča.

How much water is stored in a pumped-storage HPP “Bajina Bata”?

Pumped-storage HPP “Bajina Bašta” has one of the biggest accumulations of the capacity of about 150 million cubic meters of water (190 million kWh) and one of the largest net falls of water in the world (of 610 meters). Ј. Petković

When was the pumped storage HPP “Bajina Bata” built?

It was a sure sign that it was time to perform a similar, major overhaul soon and revitalize the plant. The pumped storage HPP “Bajina Bašta” was built in 1982. The equipment was delivered by the Japanese “Toshiba“, and the assembly was performed by national companies, with the supervision of the Japanese experts.