A planned solar power plant at Gluhi Do near Bar has received environmental consent for a facility featuring 6,110 photovoltaic panels on Paštrovačka Gora, marking another stage in the project’s permitting process. The Municipality of Bar approved the environmental impact assessment submitted by DD Solar Gradnja. The planned site covers approximately 73,426 square metres, while the photovoltaic panels are expected to occupy around 18,979 square metres.
Project documentation specifies installed photovoltaic-module capacity of approximately 5.485 MWp DC. The facility is planned with 235 supporting structures, each carrying 26 modules. Other project documentation gives a power figure of approximately 3.4 MW. The proposed plant is located on Paštrovačka Gora, near the Podgorica–Petrovac road and several kilometres from the Sozina tunnel area.
A 35 kV Virpazar–Buljarica–Podgor overhead line crosses the project area and is identified in the documentation as the intended connection point. Road access is available from the E80 Podgorica–Petrovac corridor. The project’s location places the planned generation facility close to existing medium-voltage electricity infrastructure. Grid access is a key element of the project as it progresses through the development process. Gluhi Do represents a solar development considerably smaller than the large utility-scale projects being promoted elsewhere in Montenegro. Its planned capacity is in the single-digit megawatt range, with the project combining available land, photovoltaic generation and a proposed connection to an existing 35 kV line.
The development also forms part of a broader pipeline of renewable-energy projects in Montenegro. Solar projects can vary in their development requirements according to their size, including permitting, financing, construction and grid-connection arrangements. The environmental approval is one stage of the Gluhi Do project. It confirms acceptance of the environmental impact assessment subject to the mitigation, monitoring and operational measures established in the project documentation.
The approval does not establish that financing has been completed, that the grid connection has received final approval or that construction has started. The available material also does not establish a final capital expenditure figure or commissioning timetable. The proposed 35 kV connection will require the relevant technical assessment as the project advances. Such connection work concerns network capacity, voltage behaviour, protection requirements, reverse power flows and the system’s ability to accommodate generation from multiple facilities. The project documentation therefore places the environmental approval alongside further development stages involving grid connection, financing, land arrangements and construction.
Gluhi Do is planned as a relatively small grid-connected solar facility, with 6,110 photovoltaic modules, approximately 5.485 MWp DC of installed module capacity and a documented project power figure of around 3.4 MW. The project’s progression through environmental permitting adds another individual development to Montenegro’s expanding renewable-energy pipeline, with subsequent grid, financing and construction stages still to be completed.
