The Bajgora Wind Farm is the largest
wind farm
A wind farm or wind park, also called a wind power station or wind power plant, is a group of wind turbines in the same location used Wind power, to produce electricity. Wind farms vary in size from a small number of turbines to several hundre ...
in
Kosovo
Kosovo ( sq, Kosova or ; sr-Cyrl, Косово ), officially the Republic of Kosovo ( sq, Republika e Kosovës, links=no; sr, Република Косово, Republika Kosovo, links=no), is a partially recognised state in Southeast Euro ...
. It has a
nameplate capacity of 102.6 MW and it is estimated to have an total annual output of 320 GWh, while the system is designed to be operated for at least 25 years.
The Bajgora wind farm consist of 27
wind turbines of type GE 3.8 - 137, each one having 3.8 kW 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.
The Bajgora Wind Farm is located about 40 kilometers north of
Prishtina
Pristina, ; sr, / (, ) is the capital and largest city of Kosovo. The city's municipal boundaries in Pristina District form the largest urban center in Kosovo. After Tirana, Pristina has the second largest population of ethnic Albanians and ...
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.
See also
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Kitka Wind Farm
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Electrical energy in Kosovo
The electricity sector of 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 transition period have had an ...
References
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Kosova A Power station
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Kosova B Power Station
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Bajgora Wind Farm
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Kitka Wind Farm
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* Dikanci Hydroelectric Power Plant
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Electric power in Kosovo
Wind farms in Kosovo
Buildings and structures in Mitrovica, Kosovo
2021 establishments in Kosovo
Energy infrastructure completed in 2021