Citizens will pay 50% more expensive electricity with TC “New Kosovo”

The increase in electricity prices of 50 per cent is unaffordable for Naim Gashi's family. He says that because of the economic situation, they are now struggling to pay the bill.

“Qych is the situation in Kosovo most people think people can't afford it because most people have low wages and poverty, the situation as it is, I don't think we can afford”, Gashi says.

Gezim Llapashtica considering the contract to build the new <x0 Kosovo “as harmful, says that the price of electricity is unacceptable.

This citizen has asked Government to make arrangements not to add this burden to citizens.

“It is not affordable yet the current is actually too expensive and it leaves me when the thermoelectrics are built... these contracts are harmful, the government has not properly recognised this agreement and the contract. To more expensive the current by 50 percent is unacceptable to the citizens of Kosovo because we have the other standard of life we are not standard Germany”, he says.

Besfort Kosova from Balkan Green Foundation expressing concern for such a situation that he does not consider stable, says citizens will not find it easy to afford this price.

According to him, the Kosovo government will be forced to subsidise the price of electricity.

Kosovo also says that raising electricity bills will have chain consequences in the Kosovo economy.

We think that the price can go up even more because the technology projected to be bought for the construction of this new thermal power plant can be higher in terms of cost, and that then directly affects electricity tariffs. Currently KEK produces 1 megawatt hours with about 30 euros of balance price and price KEDS, KESKO goes somewhere around 36 euros, and we finally come up with a price of 65-66 euros for megawatts hours, while with the construction of the new power plant price for 1 megawatt hours will be the minimum 65 euros maximum 80 euros, which will then result in a plus balance price of KED and KOST by 95 euros per hour to 115 euros for megavat <x>, Kosovo says.

The head of the Department for Tarifa and Cemme in ZRRE, Ymer Fejzullahu, said that out of 60 euros of the current price for megawatts, you will be raised to 90 euros as the new Kosovo “function chief will start operating.

The regulator has made a preliminary assessment, and it has been said that over 50 percent is the impact expected in the year when the new Kosovo is entered into operation”, Fyzullah noted.

The current will be expensive 50 per cent with the start of thermal operation “New Kosovo “says also the co-founder of the Kosovar consortium of the Sustainable Civil Development Society(KOSID), Haki Abazi.

Abazi tells Kosovo that building “New Kosova” will be billed to Kosovo's citizen and budget, even indirectly through taxes, not only through bills for spending electricity.

The price of electricity will increase year after year and at the completion of the plant's construction will reach a price bill that is 50% higher than the one the consumer currently pays. The price of electricity will increase for the fact that the construction cost of the new thermal power plant will be added and fatened to the citizen. This is the cost seen, which is not seen that financial analyses show are extreme costs that the citizen does not pay directly from his pocket but are indirectly paid through taxes and the state budget”, Abazi says.

Abazi has mentioned some of the other costs that will pay citizens through taxes such as the cost of public health for the next 40 to 50 years that are the consequence of the use of linen and release of toxic gases and dust, the opening of new mining for supply of thermal power “Kosova e Re”, and this includes jobs on the ground, delocation and compensation of residents, and protection measures that need to be done on the ground, costs and damage caused by forcing consumers to buy the 95 euro price for power from the Kosovo operator <x>

Kosova Preis tried to get an answer from the Ministry of Economic Development, but no one has been willing to talk about the issue.

Economic Development Minister Valdrin Luka at one of the Government's meetings has announced that during the month of April, the selection of thermal construction will be made, and in a few days the construction of the new “Kosovo will begin.

We remember that the construction of thermal power plant “New Kosovo, of a total of 1.3 billion euros, and has a production capacity of 500 megawatts of electricity. The World Bank last year has declared that will not support him The construction of a new coal power plant, although years ago this bank had promised to issue some kind of risk guarantee, which would enable the investor to take low-interest loans.