RHPP Bistrica

Bistrica Storage Project Gains Strategic Weight in Balkan Power Markets

Serbia’s proposed Bistrica pumped-storage hydropower plant is emerging as a key energy infrastructure project as electricity markets across Southeast Europe face rising renewable generation, growing balancing requirements and increased price volatility. The project, long debated in the context of financing structures, procurement approaches and political considerations, is being reassessed against changing market conditions. The expansion of solar and wind generation across Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia and Greece, alongside industrial electrification, data-centre development and decarbonisation programmes, is altering the economics of large-scale…