Energy in kosovo
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ALBANIA, 2017/08/27
The European gas market is becoming additional and additional competitive and US exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are part of this landscape, Francis Perrin, energy expert, chairman of Energy Strategies and Policies (France) told Trend.
“Energy is always a strategic business. Economic aspects are very significant of course, particularly the price of LNG, but nations as well take into account strategic issues. For some Central and Eastern European nations one of the key priorities of their energy policies is the diversification of their supplies, in particular gas imports, in order to reduce their dependence on Russia,” said the expert.
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KOSOVO, 2014/11/19
Guri Shkodra, a spokesperson for the energy supply company, KEDS, said Kosovo is facing an energy crisis this winter as a result of June's incident in the Kosovo A power plant.
"Imports have increased a lot while production has fallen significantly," he said. "The price of imported energy is as well two to three times higher than the energy produced in Kosovo's own power plants," Shkodra told Balkan Insight.
The explosion at the Kosova A power plant in June killed two persons, injured others and caused extensive damage.
The Energy Regulatory Office again decided to increase the energy price by 5 % following the blast in order to offset the additional import of energy needed next the damage caused by the explosion.
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KOSOVO, 2013/09/04
The Kosovo Civil Society Consortium for Sustainable Development and a group of other organisations inclunding BIRN Kosovo sent a letter on Wednesday to US secretary of national John Kerry, urging Washington to reconsider its backing for the lignite plant.
The letter asked the Obama government “to identify clean alternatives to a proposed coal-fired power plant in the country that can be supported by the World Bank Group”.
Approximately 98 % of the power generated within Kosovo currently comes from two lignite coal-fired thermal power plants, called Kosovo A and Kosovo B, which have a net operating capacity of between 840 and 900 MW.
