TIRANA, June 16 – State-run electricity distribution operator, OSHEE, has warned it will undertake a new nationwide campaign against debtor businesses operating in the tourism sector if they don’t pay off their accumulated debts by the end of June.
The company’s administrator, Adrian Çela, says the businesses which mainly operate in summer during the tourist season have accumulated some 2 billion lek (Euro 14 million) in unpaid electricity bills and account for 70 percent of the total of seasonal tourism businesses.
The OSHEE says summer is the only season when the debtor owners can be contacted as the businesses remain closed for the remaining of the year.
The energy distribution operator says it collected an extra $100 million in the first four months of this year, mainly in accumulated unpaid bills as part of its nationwide campaign launched last October to curb electricity thefts and losses of around Euro 150 million a year.
