Power marrow also endangers KEK workers

Uncertainty with electricity supplies is estimated to be one of the problems Kosovo has been facing since the post-war.

Although, in recent years, there has been an improved power supply, yet never over 17 postwar years, Kosovo has failed to get rid of the problem.

During this week, it has been warned by the Kosovo Energy Corporation that within two weeks, Kosovo could face an energy crisis, due to spending coal reserves for electricity production.

The electricity shortage has also been warned by the outgoing deputy minister, Agim Krasniqi. He has expressed concern about the matter in a Facebook post.

“Soon sadly our Kosovo will remain in the dark, still we will complain about why electricity prices will rise, why we will still depend on imports from Serbia”, Krasniqi wrote.

Meanwhile, Energy Union Chairman Izet Mustafa says the problems Kosovo risks having with electricity will have to be addressed urgently by competent authorities, otherwise he adds, problems will be huge.

Disgusted by the unstable power supply, Mustafa says it will grow. According to him, the price of energy will also be higher.

We expect Kosovo institutions to be seriously engaged and contribute to the improvement of this situation, otherwise problems will arise even with about 5 thousand workers of the Kosovo Energy Corporation who are at risk of being laid off. Likewise, the population will react to it. The cost of energy consumers will pay will be higher, since energy will have to be imported”, Mustafa says.

While citizens surveyed by Radio Free Europe consider the problems Kosovo may have with electricity unacceptable.

Anita, a citizen from Pristina, says restoring electricity reductions is unreasonable.

“will be a huge problem if we face unstable electricity supply. It is meaningless how many years after the war, new power capacities” have not been achieved, she says.

Donette likewise expresses herself.

If in the future we face current problems again, then I see it as a failure of state institutions. Of course, it will be a problem for every citizen of Kosovo that the lack of electricity supply” will be, says Donjet.

Meanwhile, Arben Djukka, director of the Kosovo Energy Corporation, has told Radio Free Europe that in two weeks he will make an emergency plan to deal with this situation, which he values as alarming.

Unfortunately, we will, in the next two weeks, come up with an emergency plan, which means we have to stop several generation units or have a limited generation due to the limited options or reserves we have for getting coal in that box”, Djuk said.

The age of thermal power plants has been repeatedly cited as the main reason for the lack of electricity, produced by KEK.

Without the construction of new energy capacities, such as the realisation of the multi-pronounced thermal power project “New Kosovo” and alternative energy, Kosovo is said to be unable to eliminate the problem with electricity.

But that the new thermal power plant project, launched since 2005, has not yet been finalised.