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Montan-Renar

Solar power plant in Silistra, Bulgaria. Approximate location 44.107, 27.174.

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Montan-Renar is a 7 MW solar power plant in Silistra, Bulgaria. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 2,978 homes (estimated). It ranks #31 of 43 Bulgaria power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, solar supplies about 18.2% of Bulgaria's electricity; the national grid averages 276 gCO₂/kWh (71.9% low-carbon) (2025).

7MW installed capacity
2,978homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WKS0061405.

Capacity vs largest solar plants in Bulgaria

Pobeda: 51 MW51PobedaKaradzhalovo: 50 MW50Karadzhalo…Cherganovo: 29 MW29CherganovoVratsa: 18 MW18VratsaZdravets: 16 MW16ZdravetsHadjidimovo: 11 MW11HadjidimovoLetnitsa: 11 MW11LetnitsaBezmer: 10 MW10Bezmer

Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Local climate & thermal context

This solar plant converts sunlight directly into electricity with photovoltaic panels. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 44.1°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

11.2°Cannual mean temp
2,776heating degree-days (base 18°C)
327cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
75 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -1 °CJF: 1 °CFM: 6 °CMA: 11 °CAM: 17 °CMJ: 20 °CJJ: 22 °CJA: 22 °CAS: 18 °CSO: 12 °CON: 5 °CND: 1 °CD22 °C

Heating degree-days here run 13% above the median power plant in this dataset — a proxy for how much extra energy heated equipment must replace through its surfaces in winter.

Climate heat-demand index: 56/100 — this site sits in the mid third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.

In colder climates, uninsulated hot equipment (boilers, turbines, valves, steam lines) loses proportionally more heat to ambient air — exactly the loss Inzonex modular insulation is designed to cut.

Solar PV loses ~0.35%/°C above 25°C cell temperature — roughly 0.0% at warm-season highs here (estimate).

Climate normals: WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000 monthly normals, 10 arc-min, CC BY 4.0); zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid). Degree-days & heat-demand index computed by PowerAtlas — a modelled heat-demand proxy, not a measured site figure.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #11 largest solar power plant of 23 in Bulgaria by capacity.

Bulgaria has 23 solar power plants in this dataset, together about 279 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 44.107, 27.174 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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