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Rational consumption of energy a necessity

Belgrade, 22 July 2006

Serbian Assistant Minister of Energy and Mining Aleksandar Vlajcic said today that Serbia could overcome its problem of electricity shortages, until new capacities are built, relatively painlessly when compared to other countries in southeast Europe, by having suitable regulations and tariff methodology, thus creating conditions for rational consumption of electricity.

Aleksandar Vlajcic

In an interview for the informative paper of the Serbian Electric Power Industry “KWH” Vlajcic said that a rational approach and change in behaviour regarding restructuring and organisation in the energy sector is becoming a necessity due to the more and more apparent lack of electric energy in the region, with which Serbia will deal in its own way, regardless of the fact that it possesses considerable energy resources and production capacities, which at present provide it with far more energy than its neighbours.

He recalled that rational consumption of energy is also an obligation according to the Contract on formation of Southeast Europe energy union , which determines the dynamics of opening the market according to an established plan and is adjusted to economic and social conditions of every country in the region.

According to Vlajcic, experts are warning that in the next few years, countries of southeastern Europe will face electricity shortages, even if every country manages to integrate in a suitable manner in the regional market and brings the structure of its domestic electric industry in accordance with regulatory standards.

Some countries in the region, like Albania and Montenegro, already depend heavily on import of electricity, and the problem is that building new capacities is a costly and lengthy procedure, warned Vlajcic.