After two decades, Kosovo citizens will no longer pay electricity for Serbs

Luka in an interview for Online Economy said that after the company's census in the north, the power supply in this part of the country will be done fairly and the billing of expenditures will be made through this company.

Since the end of the war in 1999, competent authorities for the energy sector have had access to the north impossible and failed to read the exchangers, send bills to citizens in the north, nor collect revenues for energy spent there.

This is after the four municipalities in northern Kosovo inhabited by Serb majority, over the years have operated outside Kosovo's constitutional legal system.

Based on reports received by the Electric Energy Regulatory Office (ZRRE) by licensed operators, the overall value of unfated energy in northern Kosovo is about 8m euros.

In March of this year, Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj was forced to allocate 1m euros to cover the electricity supply expenses for Serbian municipalities in the north, in order to avoid disfellowshipped COST from European organisations.

“. .There will be no payment from Kosovo's budget, there will be no other forms of payment, but there will be only one solution. The solution is the supply of citizens in the north legally, fairly, and their destiny normally on the part of a company that will be registered in the north as part of the” agreement, Lu Lukaa said.

The head of the MZE, further, has indicated that resolving all energy problems in Kosovo, but also in relation to Albania is the agreement with Serbia.

“The Transition Agreement with Serbia is the solution to all of Albania's problems, which we have the transmission to functionalisation, the collection of tariffs for transitary energy going through Kosovo, as well as the supply of citizens of the north -- namely, three key issues that are a loss of about 25m euros a year -- is resolved with the agreement with Serbia”, he said.

Economic Development Minister Valdrin Luka has also talked about the deal with the American company” CountGlobal” for construction of the “New Kosovo thermal power plant.

Signing the 1.3 billion-euro deal in December last year is followed by the finalisation of the contracting list.

However, according to Economic Development View Valdrin Luka, in just 4 months it will be understood how much the thermal power plant and its impact on tariffs will cost.

“Four prestigious companies are on the list, and right now when the final list is finalised we have approved the reference terms on the new Kosovo thermal power committee and now around four months, they have these companies to bring in offers and technical and financial and technical terms:x1>.

“After four months we will be able currently to understand how much the thermal power plant will cost and what impact this thermal power plant will have and whether there are financial solutions for financing this” project, Luka said.

The challenge for finalising the “New Kosovo” project, according to Luka, remains her vote in the Parliament with 2/3 of the vote.

“We have two key things that need to be passed successfully for finalising this project and building this project is a financial package, and its approval in the Kosovo Parliament with 2 and 3 votes. These two can't stop anything from doing this because just starting building it”, he concluded.

Minister Valdrin Luka has also indicated that the contracts for this project are translated and released within days.