Albania to have an interconnection power line with Kosova

TIRANA, Oct.17 – A power line with the capacity of 400 kW will be built based on the last memorandum of understanding between Albania and Kosova. Kosova’s energy ministry has already published a feasibility study determining the connection sites for the line. According to this publication, the power plant Kosova B, located near Prishtina, will be connected to the sub-station of Kashar, near Tirana, realizing an important amount of energy exchange. The hydropower station of Vau i Dejes will be the most important transition point of the line. There will be installed some 250 kilometers of power lines with the majority of them in Albania. The first segment of the line, which runs from Kosova B to Vau i Dejes, will cost $64 million. The construction work will start in 2009 and is expected to last for one year. This project comes in the context of creating a common energy market. That initiative was launched in Athens in 2002 from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, Turkey and Kosova.