TY - JOUR
TI - Renewable electricity in Western Balkans: Support policies and current state
AU - Rakić Nikola Ž
AU - Gordić Dušan R
AU - Šušteršić Vanja M
AU - Josijević Mladen M
AU - Babić Milun J
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2018
VL - 22
IS - 6
SP - 2281
EP - 2296
PT - Article
AB - The use of renewable energy sources for electricity generation in the Western  Balkan countries is analyzed in this review paper. Since those countries are  part of EU or intend to be, data for Western Balkan are also compared with  data for EU-28. The first part of the paper presents a brief overview of  main promotion mechanism for electricity generation from renewable energy  sources. As a dominant support policy, the feed-in tariff is more elaborated  as an incentive measure and a detailed overview of the amount of tariffs and  quotas for dominant technologies in the Western Balkan countries is  presented. Furthermore, the current state of installed capacities and annual  productions of three particular renewable electricity technologies (small  hydro power, wind power and solar photovoltaic) are analyzed in detailed.  Based on presented data, there is a discussion and consideration of the  impact of incentive measures on the electricity market and power production  from renewable sources. [Project of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Grant no. III 42013]