Millions of investment in Kosovo B thermal power plant turbines

The Kosovo Energy Corporation and the American company, General Electric, have signed the agreement Friday to modernise Kosovo B thermal power plant turbines.

The investment, to be made in modernising the Kosovo B thermal power plant, amounts to the value of around 50m euros.

The steam through pressure causes the turbine to become active, which in the course puts the generator into operation to produce electricity.

Modernising turbines involves fully restructuring high pressure turbines and low pressure turbines.

Restructuring these turbines is expected to increase power production capacities.

The production of electricity capacities is expected to increase by 30-35 megawatts per hour.

Currently, the Kosova A and Kosovo B thermal power plants in Obilic produce between 500 and 800 megawatts of electricity per hour, while demands are for over 1,100 megawatts per hour.

The project for modernising steam turbines of the Kosova B thermal power plant has only begun.

This is just one of the projects for modernising the Kosova B thermal power plant, Kosovo Energy Corporation officials have announced.

“All projects to re-visit the Kosovo B thermal power plant are expected to be completed by 2026”, KEK spokesman”, Skender Bucolli, has announced.

Modernisation to be made by steam turbines will enable Kosovo B thermal power plant to be in place for the next two decades, Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti has said.

With electricity production increasing, he said Kosovo is reducing dependence on energy imports.

Kosovo in 2021 imported 1,311,461 MW.

The Kosova B thermal power plant consists of two generation units known as the B1 and B2 unit.

The B1 power plant unit was launched in 1983, while B2 was released a year later.

One of the reasons for the sub-production is the decades-old age of thermal power plants.

In Kosovo, about 95 percent of Kosovo's electricity is produced from coal.

During 2022, some 6.35 million megawatts of electricity were produced at KEK thermal power plants.

The method of coal - producing electricity is considered harmful to the environment and causes high air pollution.

In recent years, Kosovo has had ongoing problems with environmental pollution, from thermal power plants A” and “Kosovo B” and also from burning coal from businesses and private homes.

Kosovo has more than 10 billion tons of coal and, as such, is the fifth country in the world for its amount.

The most important coalists are known as Kosovo Basen, Dukagjin and Drenica's Basin.

The largest amount of this product is used by KEK thermal power plants for electricity production.

According to KEK data, from 1922, when coal was launched until December 2015, 339 million tons of coal were extracted from Kosovo's Basen.

For electricity production, KEKA uses an average of 8 million tons of coal annually. /Rel