KOSTT officially independent regulatory zone for electricity within Kosovo-Albania energy bloc

Gazeta Express

30/06/2020 19:19

On Tuesday, Kosovo’s electricity transmission system operator KOSTT has officially signed the agreement with the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity, ENTSO-E, after the Regional Group of Continental Europe (RGCE) approved the deal in April.

With the deal, KOSTT and Kosovo will finally leave the SMM control block – Serbia, Montenegro and North Macedonia, and form the Kosovo-Albania (AK) control block, KOSTT said. Implementation of the new agreement KOSTT/ENTSO-E is expected to start implementation in autumn this year. In December 2019, KOSTT and Albania’s TSO OST signed an agreement on establishing a regulatory block for the Kosovo-Albania energy system.

Albanian prime minister Edi Rama during a press conference at the end of his two-day visit to Kosovo confirmed that the joint electric power network between Albania and Kosovo will be up and running from this Tuesday. According to Rama, this joint line will create a common electricity market between the two countries, in line with a project which started in 2016. “Good news is the entering in function of the joint energy and interconnection network. It was important since when we started it and then finished it, but it was a lamps system with closed key. And from today, it enters completely into function”, Rama said. /GazetaExpress/