Solar Energy in Russia: 2023 Growth & Future Challenges
Russia''s solar energy sector took a notable step forward in 2023, installing 1.1 GW of new capacity and generating 3.9 TWh of power. However, its growth trajectory still faces
According to Russian suppliers for solar power plants (altecology.ru, 2019; Solar controller, 2020), the average cost of equipment for solar power plants with an installed capacity of 10 MW is 310 million rubles.
The Orenburg region is one of the long-term leaders among the regions of Russia, not only in terms of the potential of solar energy (about 300 sunny days a year) (Kommersant, 2020; Rambler, 2020) (Figure 5), but also in terms of the rate of development of this sector in the country. FIGURE 5.
Insolation map of Russia (Map of Insolation of Russia, 2019). At the beginning of 2020, thirteen solar power plants with a total installed capacity of more than 300 MW are already operating in this region (Solar Power Plants in the Orenburg Region, 2019).
The distribution of daily and annual electricity generation presented in Figures 2, 3 indicates that the daily hours of maximum generation power of solar stations in the Orenburg region is reached from 12 p.m. up to 3 p.m. mainly in the spring and summer months.
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