Italian AEM To Provide Training for KESH Employees

TIRANA, Nov.10 – Italian energy company AEM launched a program to train the employees of Albania’s power utility KESH. The program will include “on job training” of KESH and OST employees in Italy. The Italian government has provided financial support of two million euro ($2.6 million) for AEM to provide technical education to employees and workers of KESH and its electricity transmission unit OST for 30 months, AEM said in a statement posted on its website. The program has been developed in partnership with Italian electricity transmission and dispatching company Terna. The company’s website announced last week that it had been assigned a 2.9 million euro project to provide technical assistance and management training to KESH and OST. The website reported the company’s win of a tender for the project entirely funded by Italy and involving a 30-month commitment. Terna’s assistance will cover four main areas. First, it is aimed at completing the unbundling process of the activities of Albania’s electricity supply chain at technical and managerial level. This includes improving the economic and financial terms. Second, Terna will help the power utility to design efficient future plans for the development and renovation of the existing infrastructure. Third, it will assist KESH to integrate the country’s national electricity system in the regional and the European markets. Finally it aims at the introduction of value creation management criteria.