Infrastructure

Installed capacity — Serbia

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

Installed capacity
11,165MW
reported for 2026
Renewables
34.4%
3,836 of 11,165 MW
Largest source
Lignite
6,011 MW · 53.8% of total
Against 2025
+374MW
3.5% against the previous year

The generation fleet, 2026

Installed capacity by source, as the operator reports it.

Installed capacity 11,165MW reported for 2026 Cleaner energy for tomorrow
Renewables 34.4% 3,836 MW
Largest source Lignite 53.8%
Against 2025 +374 MW
Source Capacity (MW) Of total
Lignite 6,011−110 53.8%
Run-of-river hydro 2,055 18.4%
Onshore wind 1,106+366 9.9%
Pumped-storage hydro 642 5.7%
Natural gas 611+2 5.5%
Hydro reservoir 487+3 4.4%
Solar 185+112 1.7%
Other sources 33 0.3%
Waste 32 0.3%
Biomass 2 0.0%

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 11,165 MW installed, the most that ever ran at one moment was 6,021 MW — 54% of the fleet, on 02/02/2026, 18:00:00.

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 11,165MW +374
  2. 2025 10,791MW +251
  3. 2024 10,541MW +139
  4. 2023 10,402MW +516
  5. 2022 9,886MW +318
  6. 2021 9,568MW +449
  7. 2020 9,119MW −166
  8. 2019 9,286MW +102
  9. 2018 9,184MW +77
  10. 2017 9,108MW +222
  11. 2016 8,886MW +50
  12. 2015 8,836MW

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.