Energy in Croatia
[1] Hrvatska elektroprivreda (HEP) is the national energy company charged with production, transmission and distribution of electricity.
They are distributed in three production areas: North, West and South with one independent plant, and are HEP's most important source of renewable energy.
Since 2018, Hrvatska elektroprivreda has started building integrated solar power plants according to the concept of a customer with its own production.
However, HEP Operator distribucijskog sustava or HEP-ODS (a Hrvatska elektroprivreda subsidiary) remains the largest distributor to both industry and households.
[25] With the implementation of the project HE Senj 2, HEP intends to use the remaining hydro potential in the Lika and Gacka basins by upgrading the existing hydropower system.
The project involves the construction of a large reservoir and additional capacity in order to transfer production to the top of the daily chart.
[27] In July 2022, the Spanish company Acciona Energia announced an investment of one hundred million euros in the construction of two wind farms.
One will be built in the vicinity of Split, and the other between Šibenik and Knin and will contain 16 wind turbines with a production of 203 GWh of clean electricity per year.
The projects named Opor and Boraja 2 will be sufficient to supply 60 thousand households, and the propellers will start spinning at these locations in 2024, after a year and a half of construction and testing.
[29] In January 2023, the Greek energy company EuroEnergy announced that it was taking over the 114 MW wind farm project in Lika-Senj County.
The acquisition reserves the right to expand with an additional 70.5 MW of wind capacity, subject to grid upgrades that can increase production.
Through a spatial analysis of numerous ecological and other technical parameters, the experts came up with data on the possibility of RES development in five zones with an area of 1,260 square kilometers, of which 204 km2 is within the territorial sea.
[31] In December 2019, the project of building a new high-efficiency combi-cogeneration unit KKE EL-TO Zagreb began, electric power 150 MW.
The construction lasts for three years, and this project will replace part of the dilapidated and obsolete units at the EL-TO Zagreb location.
In 1978, the Adriatic island of Vir was selected as a location for a future nuclear power plant, but these plans were abandoned.
The new power plant will be spread over three million square meters of rugged state land and will have a capacity of 150 MW, which is enough to meet the needs of around 100,000 households.
[8] In September 2022, the European Commission approved state support in the amount of 19.8 million euros for the project of building a large-capacity battery system.
