9 hours agoPrompt Azmi: Many businesses risk closing due to rising electricity prices
Periskopi(a year ago)
(a year ago)Visar Azemi from the LDK, an energy expert, has talked about the problems in this area, rising electricity prices until he has spared criticism of Kurti Government. Our “Opsion has been to make a transition phase, to exceed, basic production to keep it on coal, we wanted it 99 percent by [...]
Our “Opsion has been to make it a transitional phase, to overcome it, to keep it basic by coal production, to love it 99 percent less and less then and to enable renewable resources by creating an energy mix that would be good both for country and energy security, even for national security and for everything. But nothing happened even in this government, we saw that it drowned the idea of an American gas power plant and no one was taken”, he said in Blic Interview.
He has said that the burden for increased electricity prices will be paid to citizens and businesses, while warning that many businesses risk closing down.
“Today's electricity in the market finds it at 50 euros and 60 euros, then you have the tariffs, KEDS, KESCO, COSTs have fees each. Additional costs are much higher than the price of electricity itself. Business producers will mostly be punished. He's choking competition on the Kosovo market. It's not giving you a chance to compete in the external market and the price of the product will increase, and eventually the citizen will pay or be forced to shut down the business. The closure of many businesses is under threat as a result of the price hike of electricity”, he has estimated.
Azma has stressed that the decision must be suspended.
The decision must be suspended if not completely cancelled to enable Kosovo businesses to find electricity traders on the international market to make long-term” deals.
He has explained prices at the market and Kosovo's demand for electricity.
I'm trying to explain it very simply. The need, Kosovo's demand for electricity, is 1200-1300 megawatts per hour of peak. Your product is about 800-900 and it's discreparance, it doesn't produce as much as you need, and you have to take that energy somewhere. But if KEK sells it to KESCO for 26 euros, it's more expensive on the free market, why don't you make decisions to build new generation capacities so that you don't depend on import”, Wisar Azemi has declared.
