Serbian oil company NIS has successfully completed and commissioned a new ground-mounted solar power plant at its oil products storage complex in Novi Sad. The facility is expected to generate approximately 8.7 GWh of electricity annually, making it NIS’s largest solar project to date and one of the largest operational solar plants in Serbia.
The solar installation spans around 10 hectares within the storage terminal and includes nearly 12,000 photovoltaic panels. The company estimates that the project will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by about 10,000 tons per year.
With the launch of the Novi Sad facility, NIS has tripled the total capacity of its solar power plants. The 6.8 MW electricity output could meet the annual consumption of around 2,000 average Serbian households. All electricity produced is fed directly into the distribution network and sold commercially.
The Novi Sad installation complements NIS’s broader solar portfolio, which already includes solar systems at 78 petrol stations across Serbia. Additional solar capacity has been deployed at industrial and administrative sites, including:
- A hybrid 620 kW solar system at the Jazak drinking water production facility (rooftop and ground-mounted).
- A 585 kW rooftop installation at the Novi Sad oil derivatives storage site.
- A 100 kW rooftop system at NIS’s business building.
- Six additional rooftop solar plants at the Pančevo oil refinery, totaling 610 kW.
In total, all NIS solar installations now have a combined capacity of approximately 11.3 MW, expected to generate roughly 13.5 GWh annually. These projects are projected to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by around 15,000 tons of CO₂ equivalent each year.
