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Bosnian utility to deploy 50 MW of solar on coal waste site

Bosnian utility EBiH plans to deploy solar plants across its coal waste sites. The first two projects will be built on a coal dump in the municipality of Gračanica.

JP Elektroprivreda BiH (EBiH), the public utility of Bosnia-Herzegovina, has signed a 30-year concession agreement with the Ministry of Economy of the Central Bosnia Canton for the construction of two solar power plants with a combined capacity of 50 MW.

The two facilities, Gračanica 1 and Gračanica 2, will be built on a waste dump site of a coal mine in the municipality of Gračanica. The mine serves the 450 MW Kakanj Thermal Power Plant, which is operated by EBiH. It will invest BAM 60 million ($31 million) in the two projects.

“During the entire concession period, JP Elektroprivreda BiH will pay the Central Bosnia Canton a fee for the concession in the amount of 1.5 percent of the total value of the electricity produced,” the utility said in a statement.