Tag: electricity
Macedonia 20.11.21 | 09:52

The government steals electricity and makes millions, and the people pay millions so that the government has something to steal

The government steals electricity and makes millions, and the people pay millions so that the government has something to steal, stressed VMRO-DPMNE in a press release on Saturday. After several purchases of expensive electricity, a new contract was signed for the supply of electricity for 10 days worth...
Economy 20.11.21 | 09:45

Prof. Konstantin Dimitrov: Electricity price must go up, next year it will be around 120 euros per megawatt hour

Konstantin Dimitrov, university professor and energy expert in an interview with “Skopsko Eho” talked about the energy crisis in Macedonia. I have always said that electricity is a commodity like any other and that it has its own price like, for example, that tomatoes have. It has its own...
Economy 20.11.21 | 09:39

Electricity price to go up as of New Year’s

The price of electricity is guaranteed until December. There will be an increase as of January and we should be aware of that, but how much no one knows, ESM General Manager Vasko Kovacevski told TV21. There will be no restrictions. There is no room for panic as the situation is portrayed in public according...
Macedonia 19.11.21 | 18:45

Milososki: The director of GTC is lying, EVN brings electricity to the main substation, and GTC itself brings electricity to Gabriel Bajram’s warehouse and to the shopkeepers

Gjoko Trajcevski, the director of the GTC shopping mall, probably an accomplice in the bitcoin mining stealing state electricity, banned journalists from filming dissatisfied shopkeepers seeking answers to the scandal with the “rig-farm” of SDSM councilor Gabriel Bajram, Antonio Milososki...
Economy 09.11.21 | 17:25

Government plans to hike the electricity price by 9 percent

Alsat-M TV reports that the Government is preparing to push for a new energy price hike after New Year, of nine percent. If confirmed, this will hit households right in the middle of the heating season. The TV station cites sources within the Government, informing that the costly purchases of electricity...
Macedonia 08.11.21 | 12:00

The head of MEPSO confirms: We are importing electricity from the European network again, the situation is bad

The situation is bad, we have been importing electricity again since this morning, but less than before because the time is in our favor, the head of MEPSO Kushtrim Ramadani told “Faktor” Monday morning. Earlier, AD Elektrani na Makedonija (ESM) announced that due to a defect in the boiler...
Economy 07.11.21 | 09:44

VMRO-DPMNE: Zaev buys electricity for 5.5 million euros, secretly without anyone knowing

Zaev buys electricity for 5.5 million euros, secretly without anyone knowing, VMRO-DPMNE reacts. 26,000 megawatts of electricity was purchased for 5.5 million euros from ELEM, because Zaev’s government emptied the power plants and left REK without coal. Together with the first 15 million euros...
Macedonia 05.11.21 | 13:09

Energy crisis: Outages reported across Skopje

Large parts of the capital Skopje are left without electricity today. Reports of blackouts are coming from Centar, Karpos and Gjorce Petrov. Households say that they are losing power without prior warning. The country is facing an energy crisis as the key REK Bitola plant was left without coal because...
Economy 30.10.21 | 15:29

REK Bitola gives out high-value contracts while electricity in the country depends on only one excavator

REK Bitola for its needs has procurement contracts with various companies, but one company with which the state enterprise cooperates in the past years stands out from all the others. Compakt MSF is a company for production, wholesale and retail trade and services, which during its long-term operation,...
Macedonia Economy 04.10.21 | 10:32

Chamber of Commerce head issues dire warning about the effects from the spiking energy prices

Branko Azeski, the director of the SKM chamber of commerce, warned that Macedonian economy is in serious difficulty from the rising electricity prices. Azeski said that while most of Europe is concerned about gas prices, Macedonia still has relatively low prices and little exposure, but the electricity...
Macedonia 24.09.21 | 11:44

Procedure against a politically linked energy company could plunge the city of Skopje in darkness

The announcement from the RKE energy regulatory commission that it may revoke the license from the U-Power electricity trading company could plunge the city of Skopje in darkness. The company, linked to former Deputy Prime Minister Musa Xhaferi, has a contract worth 1.1 million EUR to supply the city....
Economy 18.07.21 | 10:04

Mickoski: Electricity getting more expensive with current government, the ruling majority didn’t support all amendments to reduce VAT as permanent solution

Ahead of the event in Bitola on the occasion of 31 years since the establishment of the Bitola Municipal Committee last night, VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski leader said regarding the announcements for cheaper electricity that electricity is not getting cheaper, but more expensive, and the government...
Economy 17.07.21 | 10:53

VMRO-DPMNE: Zaev’s silence means agreement with Moracanin’s statement that electricity should be more expensive

VMRO-DPMNE is disappointed with  because the Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, as it says, did not indicate in any statement whether he agrees that the people should pay even more for electricity, after this was proposed by Maja Moracanin, the president of DOM, a party in the ruling coalition. A few days ago,...
Economy 15.07.21 | 21:27

Moracanin: Electricity should not be cheap, it should be expensive so that the citizens spend less

Maja Moracanin, the president of DOM, the coalition partner of SDSM, said in Parliament that electricity should not be cheap, ie that citizens should pay more for electricity. My stance is completely different. I think that electricity should not be cheap, because if electricity is cheap, it leads to...
Economy 15.07.21 | 19:10

Parliament adopts law amendments on lowering VAT rate for household electricity

The Parliament adopted Thursday the amendments to the Law on Value Added Tax on lowering the VAT rate for household electricity from 18 to 5 percent. The reduced rate in accordance with the legal solution will be applied on the day of entry into force of the Law on Amendments to the Law on Value Added...
Economy 15.06.21 | 17:02

Government to fill the state budget with electricity price hike

After the announcements for a significant increase in fuel prices, it is becoming more and more certain that there will be a large increase in electricity price. Prime Minister Zaev said Tuesday that he could not guarantee that electricity price will not go up. He says the government’s plan is...
Macedonia Economy 02.06.21 | 11:37

Inflation watch: Electricity prices will go up as much as 5 percent next week

Electricity prices will go up by as much as 5 percent, confirmed Marko Bislimoski from the Energy Regulatory Commission. The decision will be made next week, and it will come after the increase of 7.4 percent last year, adding to the inflation worries. State owned and public energy companies demanded...
Macedonia Economy 28.05.21 | 18:09

Calls to hike electricity prices by at least 5 percent

Several state run and private energy market operators demanded a hike in electricity prices, of at least 5 percent. MEPSO, the company tasked with maintaining the high voltage transmission system, is leading the push for a price hike before the Regulatory Energy Commission. If approved, the demand would...
Macedonia Economy 25.05.21 | 16:11

Domestic sources provided 73,2 percent of all electricity needs in March

Domestic electricity production covered 73,2 percent of all consumption in March, the State Statistics Bureau informed. This is a slight improvement compared to the previous months, but also below the summer period, when domestic production accounted for a far greater share of used electricity. Macedonia...
Economy 25.02.21 | 17:12

More than half of the electricity consumed in December came from domestic production

According to the data of the State Statistical Office, in December 2020, the total consumption by types of energy commodities was: 859 827 MWh of electricity, 46.263 mil. nm3 of natural gas, 468 414 tonnes of coal and 92 211 tonnes of petroleum products. Gross national electricity production participated...
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