Pupin Wind Farm in Kovacica: 94.4 MW, 140M Euros
The Pupin wind farm in southwest Banat opens on Thursday, October 15, at 1 p.m. It has up to 16 turbines, up to 94.4 MW of capacity and 140 million euros of investment.
A 140 million euro investment reaches its final stage on Thursday, October 15, 2026, at 1 p.m., when the Pupin wind farm, with a capacity of up to 94.4 megawatts, officially opens in the municipality of Kovacica. The opening was announced on October 12, and the park is conceived as an expansion of the wind farm already operating in Kovacica.
Where is the Pupin wind farm and what does it consist of?
The site is in southwest Banat, in the municipality of Kovacica, between the settlements of Kovacica, Padina and Debeljaca. According to the site description, it is flat farmland dominated by fields and field roads, with a few small wooded patches.
The park has a maximum of 16 wind turbines. Each has a rated capacity of up to 5.9 MW, which caps total capacity at 94.4 MW. Besides the turbines themselves, the project includes access platforms for assembly and the cable network that connects them.
How much electricity is expected, and what do the numbers show?
Expected output is up to 220 gigawatt-hours a year. According to the announcement, that is enough to supply more than 40,000 new households.
Several ratios follow from these figures, and the arithmetic is ours, not from the announcement. If all 94.4 MW ran without interruption for a full year, they would produce about 827 GWh, so the expected 220 GWh implies a capacity factor of about 27%. Investment per installed megawatt comes to about 1.48 million euros (140 million euros divided by 94.4 MW), and each household gets under 5.5 MWh a year. All inputs are upper limits (“up to”), so these ratios are approximate.
How does Pupin connect to the existing Kovacica wind farm?
Pupin is an expansion of the existing Kovacica wind farm and connects to the transmission grid through its substation. Besides the turbines, the plan includes rebuilding about 20 kilometers of field roads in the area, along with access platforms and a connecting cable network.
The announcement says the expansion is the result of a long-term partnership between the Israeli company Enlight Renewable Energy and the Serbian company New Energy Solutions.
Who is expected at the opening?
According to the announcement, the event will be attended by representatives of the Ministry of Mining and Energy, local government and the diplomatic corps, as well as the companies and institutions that took part in the project.
The available parts of the announcement contain no statements from named participants, and they do not say when the turbines will start delivering electricity to the grid.
