Serbia Builds First Solar Energy Plant
| 06 June 2008 |
The first solar cells will be installed on 110 square metres of the roof of Vracar municipal building in Belgrade, and will produce 1,000 kilowatts a month. Installation should be complete by September.
The project is a joint enterprise by Vracar municipality and the Belgrade Electro-technical Faculty.
"Modern civilisation is definitely going through an energy crisis and one of the ways of facing it is what we've started here," Faculty lecturer Nikola Rajkovic said.
Solar power plants are seen an as alternative to dwindling reserves of oil, gas and coal. As well as being cheaper, solar energy production has an ecological advantage over more polluting conventional energy production.















