Kosovo sleeps on coal, but imports from abroad

Kosovo sleeps on coal”, this is the sentence that has circulated over generations.

In reality, this is because the country ranks fifth in the world for reserves of coal.

We have an abundance of junk, but this is not preventing the price of electricity. In addition to expensiveness, businesses in Kosovo are being forced to buy processed coals from other states, including Serbia.

About 6m euros was the value of elaborate coals that businesses in Kosovo imported in 2020-2021, according to Kosovo Customs data.

The only company licensed to sell processed coal has banned work since July 1st last year.

Kosovo's “company Thongilli” registered as a stock society, KEK, part of which the company was until 2003, has not continued the contract.

The reasons why the Energy Corporation has not renewed the three-year contract show a board member of “Kosova Töngil”.

“application is required to be the object in operation for trying to get samples all of these than they are, but without starting the job is not possible... Now there's been a few points that we've been working on. It's been a business plan, it's been the possibility of how it might be solved we've come up with a proposal that gave me a month's work, and it gave me a test test to see how much that form of water treatment that we do in”, said Constation Leci, Board member.

Leci says that procrastination was 9 months in the company, which made the coal drying ready for burns, has left over 100 families without food.

There are 160 well-incomeed employees, like for the state as well as for the company, holding 160 employees in the fingernails, because energy saves, 2 Me (mega-wat) saves it for a ton of coal”, he's coming up.

Meanwhile, according to Leci, it was decided again to join KEK, but has never been realised.

The management director of this company, says KEK is considering private business, the company which it founded on itself in 1964.

“KEK counts us as private companies, but we have constantly sought assistance from both the ministry and the Government, the only ministry, the government and the SBAS-where I can overcome this situation because our company is a profitable company”, Imri Restelica, director Manager, said.

From the Kosovo Energy Corporation, RTV Dukagjini has demanded to know why Kosovo's “Kosovo contract is not being continued.

Since the 26th, or four days ago, this company has not received answers.

The same questions were answered by the Ministry of Economy during the day.

Company employees “Kosova Thrgjill” have protested several times, but have not succeeded in their demands, the return of 160 employees, and the ban on importing processed coal in a country that has billions of tonnes of reserves.

In a decision in 2018, the sale of coal by KEK was banned, but last year this decision was abolished.