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PM Marković at PMQs: Responsible energy policy has been pursued in past ten years, by which import of electricity was practically eliminated

Published on: Jul 22, 2020 • 10:35 PM Author: PR Service
Prime Minister Duško Marković emphasised that in the past ten years, a responsible policy has been pursued in the energy sector that has always been a stable pillar of our economy, thus creating the conditions for investment in network and production capacities worth hundreds of millions of euros, while import of electricity is almost eliminated. 

"We did not wait for Bloomberg's report on new technologies in energy for 2019, nor for parliamentary questions. We have carefully, practically on a daily basis, monitored the occurrences in the world and the energy market, we designed and applied a new approach and used the benefits of technological progress. Convinced that trends are changing in the direction of rapid expansion of renewable sources, we prepared a new concept of valorisation of energy potentials already in 2017. At the beginning of 2018, the first public call for the construction was announced by one of the largest solar power plants in Europe at that moment, without any financial incentive. Contrary to the views of skeptics, we received three credible offers, selected a partner and contracted a project. That was the solar power plant Briska gora, with a capacity of 230 megawatts - without a cent of financial incentives. Immediately afterwards, in 2019, a tender was announced for a new wind farm, which was also successfully completed. Wind farm Brajići of 100 megawatts, without a cent of financial incentives. At the same time, the Electric Power Industry of Montenegro came to the realization that new technologies, in the field of renewable sources, are an important development opportunity. They have launched a project to build another 50 megawatts - wind farms on Gvozd, also without a cent of financial incentives," said the Prime Minister, answering a question from the MPs Club of the Socialist People's Party and DEMOS, about subsidies paid for energy generated from renewable sources.

The Prime Minister said that Montenegro, as a traditional importer of electricity, has been exposed to all economic and security risks of such a status for decades. "In the last twenty years alone, about EUR 850 million have been irreversibly spent on the import of electricity from our economy. The value of an entire motorway, honorable MP's, we were forced to give for the energy needed by our economy and our citizens. Instead of spending them on something else, and building and developing the country. However, by implementing responsible policies, we managed to create conditions for starting to solve the problem in 2019. Clearly, no one has counted on renewables being able to compensate for all the shortcomings. But they were part of the solution. And in Montenegro, as well as in the whole of developed Europe - then and today,"- said the Prime Minister. 

For full press release in Montenegrin, please click here. 

PUBLIC RELATIONS SERVICE OF THE GOVERNMENT OF MONTENEGRO 



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