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Finde ich auch gut, das mehr Albaner jetzt kommen!
Ein enormer Schaden für die gesamte Albanische Wirtschaft ist das derzeitige Energie Problem. Europa redet von Hilfe und Fortschritt, aber durch die Unfähigkeit des Westens, werden im Moment die letzten Arbeits Plätze zerstört.
Blackout 2005: Electricity crisis deepens
TIRANA, Nov. 2 – Albania’s power shortage deepened this week with drastic power cuts seen in the entire country, including the capital, were some neighborhoods were without power for an average of seven hours per day.
The government decided on Wednesday to allow state-owned Albanian Power Corporation to spent EUR 8.5 million in emergency funding to buy electricity in Romania and Bulgaria for the last two months of this year. The government used a direct procurement contract, which means the sale wouldn’t get bogged down in the tender process.
KESH and Albanian Minister of Economy and Energy Genc Ruli had earlier told the media consumers should expect drastic power cuts due to falling levels of production at home and inability to import electricity while demand soars.
Trouble importing energy
KESH says it is unable to satisfy domestic because it has been unable to import the needed electricity due to a series of technical and legal problems.
Ruli told a parliamentary commission last week that the energy crisis will deepen if Albania doesn’t find additional import sources immediately.
The Albanian government decided to purchase power anywhere it can, but the task is proving difficult because other countries in the region are also facing energy shortages, Ruli said.
The price of electricity has also gone up 30 to 50 percent since the beginning of the year, according to Ruli.
Importing energy was made more difficult by the fact that the current law says that more than one bidder needs to be present in order for the cooperation to buy energy from abroad.
Four previous tenders to buy electricity from abroad have failed in recent months.
Ruli said the previous government was partially to blame for the crisis because it did not plan to supply the country with electricity for the whole year.
Domestic production falls
Other reasons for the crisis include lack of water at the Fierza Hydroelectric Plant, lack of payment by consumers as well as lack of investments in the sector.
Fierza Lake, which also serves as a regulatory body of water for two more hydroelectric plants downstream, is fast approaching the level where production has to stop.
Domestic production was expected to get a boost with the end of repair work at Vau i Dejës Hydroelectric Power Plant, one of Albania’s largest. It had suffered damage after a fire there in June.
Ruli says the only real way to overcome ongoing energy crisis is to invest EUR 1.5 billion in constructing 10 new electrical plants
An ongoing problem
Power cuts due to technical failures or lack of needed resources to satisfy demand are a common occurrence in Albania, although things have improved in recent years.
Albanian businesses often cite electricity interruption as one of the main challenges of doing business in Albania.
Albania’s electricity demand increases by 10 percent annually, which has far outpaced the ability of Albania to produce electricity in its dilapidated hydroelectric plants.
KESH, a state-owned energy monopoly, will probably be privatized in 2006, and the first stages of the process have already started.
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