Tervoli hydropower plant inaugurated

The 12 MW plant will produce 40.000 KWh each year. Berisha declared that Tervoli, one of the 14 other hydropower plants that are being built in the water-rich Gramsh, was made functional only after opening a 3km long tunnel, one of the biggest hydropower constructions in our country so far.

After promising that Albania will turn into a small super-power of renewable energy, Berisha invited the water-rich areas to cooperate as a community for building other small hydropower plants, making a very luring promise.

“The government will offer free electricity until the construction cost will be paid, and the government guarantees to buy all the surplus energy that they do not need for their villages”, Berisha declared.

Berisha declared that this kind of initiative is being exploited in Switzerland, and that it is a model that should be followed in Albania.

“Being a more mountainous terrain than Switzerland, rich with water sources, we must start this initiative. The local communities should join and build small hydropower plants for having free energy and selling the surpluss”.

Berisha is using these hydropower plant inaugurations for meeting the residents of these areas, one year before the electoral campaign, and he promised that the government will increase investments in roads, schools and health centers.

In Gramsh will also start the construction of the Devoll cascade, which is considered the greatest electricity power construction ever build in Albania. The works will start next year, after the agreement’s details will be concluded. Berisha said that this construction would employ 5000 Gramsh residents and will have three hydropower plants, the biggest energy project that is currently built in Europe, with at least 1 billion EUR of investments.

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