Slovenia's green energy subsidies rise 10% in 2014

LJUBLJANA (Slovenia), March 5 (SeeNews) – Subsidies provided by the Slovenian government to green power producers rose by 10% on the year to 130.88 million euro ($147 million) in 2014, data of the country’s electricity market operator, Borzen, indicated.

In 2014, Slovenia's electricity feed-in support scheme for renewable energy source (RES) and high-efficiency cogeneration (CHP) power plants included 3,767 power plants with a combined installed capacity of 516 MWe, Borzen said in a statement posted on its website earlier this week.

Their total electricity production increased by an annual 13% to 907.1 KWh.

A total of 348 power plants joined the system last year, including 205 new entrants with a combined installed capacity of 23,942 kWe. The rest were plants where there was a change in the ownership or support type.

The new entrants included 98 solar PV plants with a combined installed capacity of 8,907 kWe and 87 fossil-fuel high-efficiency CHP with a combined installed capacity of 8,835 kW.

The bulk of the subsidies in 2014 went to solar PV plants - 62.6 million euro, followed by fossil fuel plants - 27.7 million euro. Biogas and wood biomass plants received subsidies of 15.8 illion euro and 14 million euro, respectively.

($=0.899 euro)

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