wind farm
A wind farm, also called a wind park or wind power plant, is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electricity. Wind farms vary in size from a small number of turbines to several hundred wind turbines covering an exten ...
in
Kosovo
Kosovo, officially the Republic of Kosovo, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe with International recognition of Kosovo, partial diplomatic recognition. It is bordered by Albania to the southwest, Montenegro to the west, Serbia to the ...
. It has a
nameplate capacity
Nameplate capacity, also known as the rated capacity, nominal capacity, installed capacity, maximum effect or gross capacity,
wind turbines
A wind turbine is a device that converts the kinetic energy of wind into electrical energy. , hundreds of thousands of large turbines, in installations known as wind farms, were generating over 650 gigawatts of power, with 60 GW added each y ...
of type GE 3.8 - 137, each one having 3.8 MW nameplate capacity. The hub height is 110 meters and the rotor diameter is 137 meters. Each of the turbines has three blades with a diameter of 19.8 meters that are attached to the turbine rotor that converts the movement into energy. It first started to feed electricity into the grid with nine generators in November 2021. Also, a 120 MW substation was built to transform the wind farm's electricity to the 110 kV level.
Location
The Bajgora Wind Farm is located about 40 kilometers north of
Prishtina
Pristina or Prishtina ( , ), . is the capital and largest city of Kosovo. It is the administrative center of the eponymous municipality and district.
In antiquity, the area of Pristina was part of the Dardanian Kingdom. The heritage of th ...
in the southern foothills of the Kopaonik Mountains, and it is in an altitude of 1800 m. It accounts for a tenth of the domestic installed capacity in Kosovo.
Electrical energy in Kosovo
The electricity sector of Republic of Kosovo, Kosovo relies on coal-fired power plants (92% as of 2023) and is considered one of the sectors with the greatest potential of development. The inherited issues after the war in Kosovo and the transitio ...