28 minutes agoCOMM SID: Hydrocentrics risk environmental degradation
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)The Kosovo Government's plan to increase power generation capacities from renewable sources is seen with scepticism by the consortium of sustainable development organisations (KOSID). Besfort Kosovo, representative of the consortium in the debate on the construction of hydropower plants in Kosovo, said the country's water capacity is not enough for [...]
Besfort Kosovo, representative of the consortium in the debate on the construction of hydropower plants in Kosovo, said the country's water capacity is not enough for the construction of many hydropower plants.
Our main conclusion is that Kosovo does not have such a large capacity for building these plants, especially small hydropower plants. This is also related to the fact that Kosovo for a year has between 1,000 and 500 cubic metres of water per head, but also because of Kosovo's self-relief, which is a water supply and we don't have any large river running through Kosovo”, Kosovo said.
He added that in research done by KOSID, environmental protection zones are being jeopardised by plans to build hydropower plants.
“We like KOSID are not against hydro-power plants, but we stay on that they should be built in certain places where they don't do environmental degradation and where they don't harm biodiversity and cause different environmental problems, especially in drying rivers or even in damage to underground water”, he added.
According to Kosovo, the Ministry of Economic Development has envisioned building 77 new hydropower plants within the framework that by 2020 the 25 percent rate of renewable energy resources where Kosovo currently has only 5 percent
