Kosovo does not favour buying energy from businesses

Hamdi Malusha, an expert on renewable energy, says of Kosova Preris, that the contract between state and energy corporation KEDS is making changing regulation impossible, which would enable businesses, to sell state energy produced.

“The contract on KEDA, the fatal contract for the energy sector, and a little bit of production we have with the agriculture ministry investment we can't get into the market, if a producer in the market, gives us 1 kilowattts of electricity, we buy 500 euros from the locals, the law is a barrier, the law is an obstacle to the energy sector, it's been, it's still, it's still, we can't sell it when it produces it when we can, but, because each citizen is able to produce its own energy, the laws don't allow it, we can't sell it now, we can't sell it or we can't change it, but we can't make it.

The Kosovo government is in the process of adopting the Energy Strategy through which it aims to regulate the issue of energy supply and transformation to renewable energy.

Besiana Qorray-Berisha, who is senior for renewable sources in the Ministry of Economy, has told Kosovo Press that they are still working to finalise this strategy, which for the next nine years enables businesses to sell electricity within Kosovo territory.

The economy ministry is currently in the phase of the drafting of the energy strategy for the period 2022-2031, and there are all scenarios that will be directed towards designing the energy sector, where special importance is given to the sectors for renewable energy, where we have put very ambitious limits, will be capacity from solar energy and wind energy. We are drafting the law for renewable resources and parallels with renewable resources we are also identifying a new support scheme for renewable resources so that all potential investors who want to invest in the field of renewable and especially solar energy resources, so that their projects can build in Kosovo and the energy they produce to sell in Kosovo<1> declared Qorraj.

Dardan Abazi, a researcher at the Institute for Policy Development (INDEP), told KosovaPress that the current government has been delayed in finalising the law and energy strategy and that this slowdown is causing economic damage to the country. He stresses that the energy strategy, the government had promised to draw it up early in 2022.

“I can say that the government has been very late in adopting strategy on energy projects and we are already entering the first half of the year, the end of the first half of 2022, and we still don't have the new energy strategy. Also, we have been delayed in adopting the law on renewable energy sources, the government is going too slowly to adopt this law, and this too is causing some lost opportunities in the energy sector so that investors can have the legal and institutional environment complete before investing” is made, he said.

According to the economic dictatorship, there is not yet a package of support which would enable businesses to become more empowered in energy production, but the latter could make an agreement between COST and Z. RRE to sell the power that KEDS do.

We don't actually have a supporting supply fee scheme, it ended in 2020, and all those persons or investors who are interested can build a capacity and make a deal with COST and Z. THREE to sell that energy at a fixed price that they too might agree to. As far as I know in Kosovo, there is no company that sells electricity abroad that has nowhere to sell in Kosovo, and seeing electricity prices rise, import has been very expensive and then it would be welcome to buy those local capacities from KED or companies that operate with the purchase of electricity” said Qorray.

Until the release of this report, the Energy Regulatory Office and KED have not answered Kosovo's questions about the matter.

That Kosovo has maximum potential to invest in solar energy, the solar energy connoisseur from Germany, Sonja Risteka from energy company “, has said. Energy:”

I think it's very important, because Kosovo, of course, has a lot of potential, has wind potential and it's important to invest in this, it's important to get into this market to also be able to provide a safe and affordable energy, and not rely too much on the import of fossil fuels, because we're seeing what's happening now, and we don't know if in the future these kinds of shocks will continue. So it's also about the country's energy independence as well, because it's important that this be used as much as possible in the renewable resource market”

She declared for Kosovo Press, that Kosovo is part of the Energy Community and that it must implement all reforms. It has criticised Government, saying Kosovo should boost co-operation with the countries of the region in the field of energy.