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Montenegro gives green light for four solar plants totaling 127 MW

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March 17, 2025

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Investors in Montenegro plan to build four solar power plants with a combined capacity of 127 MW, three of which will be located on the territory of the country’s capital, Podgorica.

The Government of Montenegro has issued urban planning and technical requirements for the construction of the four solar power plants. All four companies that submitted requests for the issuance of urban planning and technical requirements are owned by private individuals.

The issuance of urban planning and technical requirements is one of the steps towards the construction of a solar power plant.

The largest of the four projects is the Bogetići photovoltaic power plant, with a maximum planned capacity of 67 MW, according to the decision issued by the Government of Montenegro.

The request was submitted by Podgorica-based TM Invest, and the planned site for the power plant is in the municipality of Nikšić.

The largest of the four projects has a capacity of 67 MW

Solar power plants Soluno, KAP, and KAP II should be installed on the territory of the Montenegrin capital, Podgorica. The maximum capacity of the Soluno solar power plant is 13.5 MW, and the applicant is Podgorica-based firm Soluno.

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Solar power plants at KAP

Requests for solar power plants KAP and KAP II were submitted by Unipan Green. The maximum capacity for KAP is 33.75 MW and for KAP II, 12.9 MW.

Unipan Green is affiliated with aluminum producer Unipro KAP, also known as Kombinat Aluminijuma Podgorica.

Two projects are associated with Uniprom KAP

Former Minister of Mining and Energy, Saša Mujović, said during a visit to KAP last May that the company had already installed 2 MW of solar panels, with plans to increase the capacity to 12 MW.

The owner of Uniprom, Veselin Pejović, said at the time that installing solar panels would make the company fully independent from electricity supplied by state power utility Elektroprivreda Crne Gore (EPCG).

He also said that solar panels would ensure a green certificate for the company’s products, guaranteeing that production is powered by renewable energy sources.

In addition to these four power plants, a large number of other solar projects are being developed in Montenegro. The Montenegrin transmission system operator has so far signed seven contracts on building grid connection infrastructure, and many projects have received urban planning and technical requirements or submitted requests for environmental studies.

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