The wind park near Aleksinac is being built by a foreign investor, but the "Nishlije da se pitaju" association asks whether "that investor is foreign at all and not just a mask for some local tycoon."
Wind farm they add, will be built without measuring the wind direction and speed and that only the subsidized investor will benefit from that project, while the state and the people will be at a loss.
Where will the construction take place?
They announced that the construction of a wind park with 40 wind turbines is planned on an area of 2.467 hectares, which includes plots in the villages of Ćićina, Bobovište, Rutevac, Bradarac, Subotinac, Mozgovo, Bovan and Vukašinovac.
They add that in the Detailed Regulation Plan, the investor and the client of the plan state that "after several years of observation of the wider area that the client of this Plan recognized as a promising area for the use of wind energy, data were collected that confirmed favorable directions, speed, frequency and constancy of wind blowing..."
According to Zoran Vasiljević, a meteorologist, the question arises "what kind of observation of the wider area".
"Namely, in order to assess the profitability of using wind for electricity production at a location, it is necessary to measure the wind direction and speed at that location at a certain range of heights above the terrain. It is a range from 10 meters up to a height of approximately 200 to 300 meters above the terrain, which depends on the height reached by the tips of the propellers of the wind generators that are to be used," Vasiljević claims.
"Then, the minimum period of measuring the direction and speed of the wind at various heights at a given location should be a period of at least one year, with continuous measurements, because the characteristics of the wind change during the year, by month, that is, by the seasons. The optimal period of measurement for obtaining a reliable conclusion would actually be from three to five years continuously, because the characteristics of baric systems that dominantly cause the horizontal movement of air, that is, wind, can differ from year to year," Vasiljević pointed out in the announcement.
He claims that such measurements "simply did not exist at the location in question."
"The only area in Serbia where the use of wind is economically profitable is actually the area of South Banat. I am convinced that the project in question will not be economically profitable as a whole, but the investor will not bear the losses because the state of Serbia will compensate him many times over for all the potential unprofitability through the price of the purchased 'green energy' and in the end he will make a lot of money. The state of Serbia and the people will lose out. While someone will make a lot of money," concluded Vasiljević.
Source: Time/Beta