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electricity consumption declined 4.5% y/y to 343.6 GWh in the ninth month of the year.
Kosovo relies mostly on coal-fired power plants (92%) but is working to diversify its generation portfolio with renewable energy sources.
Gross electricity generation from thermal power plants (TPPs) dropped by an annual 3.3% to 364.5 GWh in September 2024, while power production from HPPs rose by 16.8% y/y to 7.4 GWh. Power production from solar and wind power plants plunged 20.3% y/y to 26.2 GWh. The share of alternative electricity in the overall consumption was 9.8%.
Kosovo’s Energy Regulatory Office (ERO) announced in November 2024 the approval of 50 MW of cross-border transmission capacity between Albania and Kosovo, promoting deeper integration of their electricity markets.
This decision, made during a board meeting, is intended to strengthen regional cooperation and improve energy exchange between the two nations.
7.6 Energy & Power – Moldova
Russia cut gas deliveries to Moldova on January 1 in an attempt to
undermine political stability.
Majority state-owned Russian company Gazprom announced on December 28 it would discontinue its gas supplies to Moldova effective January 1, at 7:00 am local time, on the grounds that Moldovagaz, in which the Russian company holds a majority stake, “has constantly failed to pay the bills, which is a significant breach of the contractual terms.”
Most likely, the “constant failure to pay the bills” regards the $800mn historic debts claimed by Gazprom but not recognised by the Moldovan authorities, unless Gazprom changed its policy and expects the pro-Russian separatist Transnistria region to pay its gas bills that already topped $10bn. Moldovagaz’s end users in the region controlled by the Moldovan constitutional authorities (Moldova proper) have not used a single molecule of Russian gas in the past two years.
Both Prime Minister of Moldova Dorin Recean and Moldovagaz CEO Vadim Ceban confirmed Gazprom’s notification, which didn’t come as a surprise in the context of Ukraine closing the route for Russian gas and no alternative arrangements prepared for Moldova. Moldova already enforced a 60-day state of emergency in the energy sector as of December 16, to allow authorities to take steps and accommodate the gas shortage.
In response to Gazprom’s notification, Recean accused Russia of
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