Infrastructure

Installed capacity — Montenegro

What Montenegro could produce with everything running at once: installed capacity by source, as reported for 2026, next to how much has actually run.

Installed capacity
1,032MW
reported for 2026
Renewables
79.6%
822 of 1,032 MW
Largest source
Hydro reservoir
342 MW · 33.2% of total
Against 2025
+55MW
5.6% against the previous year

The generation fleet, 2026

Installed capacity by source, as the operator reports it.

Installed capacity 1,032MW reported for 2026
Renewables 79.6% 822 MW
Largest source Hydro reservoir 33.2%
Against 2025 +55 MW
Source Capacity (MW) Of total Against 2025
Hydro reservoir 342 33.2% 0
Run-of-river hydro 307 29.8% 0
Lignite 210 20.4% 0
Onshore wind 173 16.7% +55

How much ran at once

The highest output delivered at a single moment over the past twelve months, by source group, next to the installed capacity.

Of 1,032 MW installed, the most that ever ran at one moment was 933 MW — 90% of the fleet, on 19/02/2026, 16:00:00.

The peak is read from our own generation archive, not estimated: it is a lower bound on what the fleet can do. A small ratio means the group's sources never all ran together — reservoir hydro starts at peak demand, thermal plants sit idle when they are not called. A ratio above one hundred means the declared capacity has fallen behind: the figure is declared at the start of the year while new units come online during it. Groups are compared here rather than individual source types: the same source can report capacity under lignite and generation under coal, and at group level the two meet.

How it changed, year by year

Total installed capacity, from 2015 to 2026.

  1. 2026 1,032MW +55
  2. 2025 977MW 0
  3. 2024 977MW 0
  4. 2023 977MW 0
  5. 2022 977MW 0
  6. 2021 977MW 0
  7. 2020 977MW 0
  8. 2019 977MW −177
  9. 2018 1,154MW +210
  10. 2017 944MW +82
  11. 2016 862MW 0
  12. 2015 862MW

The figures come from the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform: installed generation capacity by production type. The year is the one the operator reports for, not the year the figure was published.

Two things are not here: the number of installations per source, and batteries as a source of their own. The aggregated report does not carry them, and batteries fall under “other”. They appear the day the source publishes them separately.