BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 29. The project for revival of Vlora thermal power plant has turned into a regional project with an impact of the Western Balkans, but not only, as it will be an integral part of a major project, that of the Ionian Adriatic Pipeline (IAP), said Belinda Balluku, Albania’s Minister of Infrastructure and Energy, Trend reports via Albanian Daily News.
She stressed that international partners have praised the management of the energy sector by the government.
Assuring the household consumers that the price of energy will not increase, Balluku also informed that the government at the end of May will sit at a roundtable with businesses in the middle voltage to discuss how they will operate.
The planned capacity of the IAP is five billion cubic metres of natural gas per year. Albania will use approximately one billion cubic metres, Montenegro would take half a billion, for southern Bosnia and Herzegovina one billion cubic metres. Croatia would take over about 2.5 billion cubic metres a year for its own needs and the needs of countries in Central and Eastern Europe.
The pipeline’s length will be 94 kilometers, and the construction will cost approximately 207 million euros.