The energy system crisis

They demand a general financial inspection over all state owned companies.

“Since the state authorities continue to keep the data in the dark, regarding the chain of debts that has involved our energetic system and that is not being resolved, I think that now it is time for the Parliament to take its control, to audit the finances of these monopoly enterprises and get informed to the details for the debt chain within the energetic sector”, Brace declared.

Harasani declared: “It is intolerable that the CEZ company, after two years in Albania, has made no investments and keeps demanding price increase. The price for families, from 2005 to today, has increased with 250 to 300%, while the encashment level, which in 2005 was around 81% and in 2008 went to 86-87%, today it is 70%. This shows incapability and lack of seriousness by the Czech Company”.

Erjon Brace says that the energetic sectors have plunged into a double production and financial crisis, due to the monopolies, and also due to some “clientelist” policies of the government.

“The government has created some favors for a group of private companies, which consume almost 15% of the electrical power in this country, with lower prices than the family consumers and pensioners. They have brought this situation and the debt chain between the three companies within the Albanian energetic system”, Brace declared.

According to brace, the government is trying to charge the citizens for the cost of this crisis, by increasing the electricity price and by creating power interruptions.

“The state budget has no money, despite the declarations of the Minister of Finances. There is no money for offering subventions to KESH, there is no money for the reimbursement of families in need. From the social point of view, this makes the energetic crisis even more difficult to handle”, Brace declared.

The CEZ proposal for not asking price increase if the government pays the debt was considered by Harasani as an unacceptable threat.

“The CEZ Company is responsible for collecting the energy bills and debts. No one has to suffer for the incapability of this company”, Harasani declared.

The energy sector is plunged in a chain of debts, where the three companies owe millions of EUR to each other, but this situation also includes other public companies, outside the energetic sector, for which CEZ pretends that they owe them considerable amounts of money.

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