Rainfall improves conditions, does not shorten rationing

The increased rainfall during last week has definitely created better conditions for local production. Thus two important plants, at Vau i Dejes and Koman, have been producing energy at normal capacities. According to KESH, it is still early to state that the crisis is over. The water level at Fierza Lake has reached 269.4 meters from last month’s 263. However, experts say that only when the lake reaches 275 m can they be sure that the critical phase is over. The optimum level for domestic production would be reached if the lake’s water level rose to 296 m. Currently, the level of water available is, respectively, at Koman 175 m and in Vau i Dej쳠76 m, and they have been producing at maximum capacity. Nevertheless, the most important source for energy is at the largest hydropower plant in the country, in Fierza. KESH, learning from the experience of recent years in which this plant was overused until it was longer operational, is not intending to use the energy reserves that it can produce without being sure it has optimum conditions to do so.