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The issue of electricity supply in northern Kosovo has been kept secret after a Kosovo operator announced that it was taking control of the entire territory of Kosovo. Neither Belgrade nor Pristina explained to the citizens what awaits them. For now, only hours are counted to hear the conclusions of yesterday’s meeting of the Serbian List with President Vučić. No one explains when and to whom they will pay for electricity.
More than two years ago, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić happily announced that Kosovo operator KOSTT was unable to become a member of the European energy network.
“And for us, in this sense, our people in northern Kosovo were probably more important, probably even more important than Interpol itself,” Vucic said in November 2018.
However, they succeeded in their intentions in April this year, and the president asked that no one physically occupy Valac and Gazivode, in northern Kosovo. Namely, the Kosovo operator left the energy bloc with Serbia and formed a new one with Albania.
KOSTT is a member of ENTSO-Ea, that is, European families of transmission system operators, as EMS is a member of ENTSO-Ea, explains the director of the European Energy Community, Janez Kopač.
“Remember how there was an unauthorized withdrawal of electricity from the grid in Kosovo, which EMS had to pay for because it was responding to the international community,” recalls Kopac.
And in Belgrade, a new drama: an unexpected meeting on the subject of energy yesterday.
It is not known what the representatives of the Serbian List of Kosovo, the state leadership in Belgrade and the representatives of the Serbian Power Grid spoke about in the Palace of Serbia. Little by little the hours are running out at 72 for which the announcement of the conclusions was announced.
However, the question is what may be new in relation to energy, given that Serbia also accepted Kosovo’s energy independence with the Brussels Agreement.
The issue has moved from profession to politics, explains Ljubiša Mijačić, analyst in the field of environmental resources.
“And that is why this announcement is postponed to find political aspects of justification of what can happen. And what will happen is that Kosovo, that is, KOSTT, will provide the energy bloc and the energy supply to the north of Kosovo, to Walc, “says Mijacic.
The object of the dispute between Belgrade and Pristina is now the Elektrosever company, foreseen by the Brussels agreement. The question is, will you get a license and for what? You can trade.
“And if it is not possible to register a foreign or commercial company for electricity trading in Kosovo, then it is a violation of the rules of the energy community by Kosovo,” warns Kopac.
Mijacic recalls that Pristina, in the distribution itself, insists on the monopoly of KEDS, which is otherwise a private company and which takes care of supply and maintenance.
“Elektrosever did not get a license … Serbs in northern Kosovo expect it to be a company like KEDS, but competent in northern Kosovo,” he says.
He added that this situation should be seen as an opportunity for regional cooperation in the field of energy.
The question that afflicts the citizens of northern Kosovo is whether and when the collection of electricity, which has not worked since 1999, will begin. They received no response, but saw on the TV screen the one who has not been in Kosovska Mitrovica for a long time: Milan Radojicic, one of the suspects in the case of the murder of Oliver Ivanovic.
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