Review of green electricity production in Slovenia

The article presents a short review of electricity production from renewable energy sources in Slovenia. In Introduction the term of “green electricity” is defined. Comparison of structures of electricity production is presented for the years 1990 and 2003. The main part of the article presents an approximate data for technical and theoretical potentials of renewable energy sources in Slovenia. State-of-the-art regarding individual technologies of electricity production from renewable energy sources and political targets according to Directive 2001/77/EC for green electricity are also presented. At the end of the article different stimulation models are described and uniform prices and premiums for the purchase of green electrical energy are presented.