Renewable resources together with energy efficiency are one of the main factors of energy transition, although in Kosovo the transition in this area requires a total change in production, as our country is a producer of energy with coal over 95 percent.
This was said today at the conference "Energy Transition in Kosovo", organized by the Kosovo Consortium of Civil Society for Sustainable Development (KOSID).
The Executive Director of the Development Policy Institute part of KOSID, Burim Ejupi said that Kosovo has the potential for energy transition, but the goals for building new capacities for production of coal energy, this is difficult to achieve.
"Even in Kosovo, the spirit of energy transition has come, because the country is also part of it. The way we spend and produce energy, so don't just production be part of the transition. In our country, over 95 percent of energy is produced from coal, the rest from renewable and alternative sources. But the way of energy transition requires a total energy transition from the production system, but also from the consumption system", said Ejupi, reports kp.
The deputy director of the Secretariat of the Energy Community in Vienna, Dirk Buschle, said that this Secretariat will draft the climate law in Kosovo, which according to him is missing now and will be presented to the government and the assembly soon and it is hoped that helps them start the energy transition process.
"The transition now, which comes not only from Germany, but which is global and is a transition that is about decarbonization and removing from the fuel mix that is harming our generation and the generations that come after us, as a result of the impact on climate, therefore, we should not act like that only if we are pushed and bumped against the wall. This is where we need to get involved pro-actively and I'm seeing a trend here that this pro-active approach as the rest of Europe has embraced the energy transition. The fact that we will change our sectors and our lives fundamentally, there is a risk that this will happen in the region with delay. In Kosovo, there are many opportunities for exploitation, you can also mention renewable energy, then energy efficiency", said Buschle.
The Vice-Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Economic Development, Dardan Sejdiu, who spent all his time on the panel focused on the commercial agreement between the Government and the company "Contour Global" for the construction of TC Kosova e re, said that this is contrary to the spirit of the law on electricity and with the energy treaty, in this case with the agreements signed with the European Union.
According to him, the agreement with "Contour Global" does not allow Kosovo to move forward in the spirit of transition.
"I will show why this agreement with "Contour Global" does not allow us to move forward that would be in the spirit of energy transition. The first is the interconnection with Albania, which was built with funds from the German Government, an interconnection and this in itself is an asset that we will destroy with the new contract without putting it into use yet. So, we will have the situation that the energy, which comes from renewable sources at the time when we would need it, cannot be put into use, because we have an obligation that comes from the contract, which is that we always have to buy 450 megawatts with 80 euros per megawatt hour, the price targeted by the manufacturer "Contour Global", Sejdiu said.
Although the Minister of Economic Development, Valdrin Lluka, was also invited to this panel, he refused to participate on the grounds that he does not want to appear as the only supporter for the "Kosova e re" power plant.
