Masdar and Finland’s Taaleri Energia have formally commissioned the 154 MW Čibuk 2 wind farm, expanding Serbia’s largest wind power complex and strengthening privately financed renewable generation in the country.
The project is located in the municipality of Kovin, between the villages of Bavanište and Mramorak, around 40 kilometres from Belgrade. It comprises 22 Nordex wind turbines and was developed next to the existing Čibuk 1 facility.
The two wind farms now have combined installed capacity of 312 MW, forming the largest operating wind energy cluster in Serbia and the wider Western Balkans. Čibuk 2 is expected to generate enough electricity to cover consumption equivalent to around 178,800 Serbian households.
Construction began in 2024, followed by trial operation during 2025. More than 1,000 workers, subcontractors and project-management personnel participated in construction, with much of the workforce drawn from South Banat and surrounding communities.
The project occupies a site covering approximately 4,750 hectares, although turbine foundations, roads and associated infrastructure use only a small portion of the area. More than 99% of the land remains available for agricultural production.
The developers estimate that annual output from Čibuk 2 will avoid approximately 311,200 tonnes of carbon dioxide, 12,700 tonnes of sulphur dioxide, 1,470 tonnes of nitrogen oxides and 512 tonnes of particulate emissions compared with equivalent coal-fired generation.
Electricity produced by Čibuk 1 and Čibuk 2 is already being used by state-owned power utility Elektroprivreda Srbije. The project therefore adds renewable output to EPS’s supply portfolio while reducing the company’s marginal dependence on lignite and imported electricity.
Serbia’s combined wind and solar capacity has increased from approximately 400 MW to more than 1.3 GW over the past four years. Two rounds of renewable-energy auctions have also supported 17 new power plants with 1.2 GW of capacity, representing planned investment of close to €1.5 billion.
Čibuk 2 gives Serbia additional high-capacity-factor renewable generation, but its system value will increasingly depend on grid reinforcement, balancing capacity and storage. Those investments will determine how much of Serbia’s growing wind pipeline can be connected without creating congestion or increasing curtailment risk.
