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Residents fire up generators as Kosovo energy crisis escalates
Reuters ^ | 28 December 2021 | Fatos Bytyci

Posted on 01/01/2022 4:43:36 AM PST by blueplum

PRISTINA, Dec 28 (Reuters) - As Kosovo endures its worst energy crisis in a decade, Xhelal Gashi is considering closing down his bakery in Pristina because he is struggling to cover fuel costs for a generator since authorities introduced power cuts....

Many businesses and households in Kosovo have brought out portable power generators since the country's power distribution company, Kosovo Energy Distribution Systems (KEDS), announced last week that it would introduce two-hour-long power cuts until further notice....

..."As a consequence, Kosovo is importing energy that was not scheduled in the markets," The European Network of Transmission System Operators (ENTSO-E), which represents electricity transmission operators across Europe, told Reuters by email, adding that Kosovo's excess demand could threaten supply across Europe.

"The Transmission System Operators in ENTSO-E’s Regional Group Continental Europe (RGCE) urges KOSTT (Kosovo's transmission system operator) to keep their national electricity system in balance, which is an essential contractual obligation towards the other TSOs in Continental Europe," ENTSO-E said....

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: energy; euinfrastructure; subsidizedelectric
Basically, the ENTSO-E is telling Kosovo to freeze because they're only allocated so much off the grid and no more. And Kosovo, which has better things to do with foreign aid dollars than build power plants, only has two.
1 posted on 01/01/2022 4:43:36 AM PST by blueplum
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To: blueplum

Coming to your nearest theater soon!


2 posted on 01/01/2022 5:06:56 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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Residents fire up generators as Kosovo energy crisis escalates

I remember when The US, UN, Western Europe, NATO and Western Liberal Socialists "fixed" Kosovo and made it perfect, saving all the innocent Muslims by killing off the Serbs in their own Nation.

So this just isn't possible.

3 posted on 01/01/2022 5:08:30 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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‘Forgotten Battalion’ of US soldiers still preserving peace in Kosovo two decades on

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2021-08-19/Kosovo-Bondsteel-National-Guard-Vermont-2580248.html


4 posted on 01/01/2022 5:22:10 AM PST by McGruff
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I wonder what’s the real cause of this? Pretty weird to have yet another country with an energy crisis at this time.


5 posted on 01/01/2022 8:41:55 AM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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