Not-to-Be First Wind Farm in Serbia Still Not Written Off – Zajecar Amending Plans for Construction of Vrska Cuka Wind Farm

The City of Zajecar has announced that it has started working on the preparation of the Decision on the starting of the preparation of the second Amendment to the detailed regulation plans for the construction of the windmill farm – wind parks Vrska Cuka and Vrska Cuka II in Zajecar.

Vrska Cuka was announced pompously 12 years ago as the first wind farm in Serbia, but since then, plenty of wind farms have been built in Serbia, and the one near Zajecar has not seen the light of day.

In 2012, the foundation stone was laid down for the wind farm Vrska Cuka 2A, with a power of 9 MW, and Petar Skundric, the then energy adviser to the prime minister of Serbia, stated that it is “a historical moment not only for Zajecar, but also for Serbia, because this marks the beginning of the realization of the project of the construction of energy capacities which will produce energy from wind.”

After this wind park, another three wind farms with a total installed capacity of 35.45 MW were supposed to be built in the same location.

VP Energy Systems from Switzerland was presented as the investor at the time, and the announced value of the investment was EUR 70 million.

The beginning of the construction of the wind farm was announced again two years later, and in 2016, as the media reported, the agreement with the Swiss company was terminated, and then a pre-agreement was signed with the Czech Vision Group.

The investment was supposed to be worth EUR 100 million, and it entailed the construction of a wind farm of 60 MW.

However, as soon as the next year, the Czech investor withdrew, because, as they said for eKapija, Zajecar had not been able to secure the quotas for a wind farm of an adequate power.

The city had a quota available which enabled the construction of a wind farm with 36 MW of power, whereas the requirement of the Czech company and its partners was for the project to be expanded to a minimum of 60 MW of installed power.

As Barbora Bartokova explained for eKapija, that is why Vision Group 21 opted out of the project, but she added that there was “readiness to reactivate the project if Zajecar secures the minimum required power of 60 MW.”

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Vision Group 21 Czech Republic

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Petar Škundrić

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