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Focus on Energy, 2010 - Karanovic & Nikolic

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Natural GasDEVELOPMENT PRIORITIESThe natural gas market in Maced<strong>on</strong>ia is seriously underdeveloped. The <strong>on</strong>ly major investment tookplace 13 years ago with the establishment of a 98km l<strong>on</strong>g gas pipe line from the Bulgarian border to thecapital of Maced<strong>on</strong>ia, Skopje. The gas network is covering <strong>on</strong>ly the area around Skopje and is serving ahandful of industrial locati<strong>on</strong>s. The necessity of natural gas and the geographic positi<strong>on</strong> of the countryhas resulted in plans for the c<strong>on</strong>structi<strong>on</strong> of new pipelines, towards Albania and Italy. Another projectenvisages a gas pipeline, transporting gas from Turkey through Maced<strong>on</strong>ia to the northern Balkans.The Government and Makpetrol a.d. 1 jointly own the market operator in the country JCS “GA MA”. GAMA also operates the nati<strong>on</strong>al gas network and is the most important company in the market 2 . The <strong>Energy</strong>Regulatory Commissi<strong>on</strong> of Maced<strong>on</strong>ia (“ERC”) 3 sets the retail and supply gas prices and generallyregulates the sector through various by-laws and pricing decisi<strong>on</strong>s. The earlier menti<strong>on</strong>ed TPP “Negotino”(210 MW) is planned to be c<strong>on</strong>verted from a heavy fuel (mazute) to a plant using natural gas as thefuel of choice for the producti<strong>on</strong> of its electricity. Bearing all this in mind, Maced<strong>on</strong>ia over the next fewyears will become significantly more gas-dependant than it is today.PROJECTSThe first private investment in electricity producti<strong>on</strong> in Maced<strong>on</strong>ia, the combined heat and power plant(“CHP”) “TE TO” in Skopje, is planned to start producti<strong>on</strong> in <strong>2010</strong>. The CHP plant will use natural gas toproduce more than 1,800 GWh of electricity and over 350 GWh of thermal energy. Investors in the 137milli<strong>on</strong> Euro project are the Russian company “Sintez” (80%) and the Maced<strong>on</strong>ian heat supplier “Toplifikacijaa.d. Skopje”. This CHP, together with other smaller CHP plants starting operati<strong>on</strong> in <strong>2010</strong>, shallincrease gas imports by 268% in comparis<strong>on</strong> with 2009 4 .45ELEM is also planning investments in CHP plants, in order to utilize the relatively low gas prices and totake advantage of the minimal envir<strong>on</strong>mental impact of these types of facilities by locating them inurban or semi-urban areas. 5In Skopje, the gas cogenerati<strong>on</strong> plant “Kogel Sever” started test producti<strong>on</strong> <strong>on</strong> 19 May 2009. However,it will not become fully operati<strong>on</strong>al, i.e. c<strong>on</strong>nected to the energy system of Maced<strong>on</strong>ia, until mid <strong>2010</strong>.The installed capacity of the plant is 30 MW. It is expected to produce approximately 150 to 220 GWhelectricity annually, and 30 to 70 GWh heat and technical steam. 6FOCUS ON ENERGYThe Prime Minister of Maced<strong>on</strong>ia, Nikola Gruevski, and the director of ELEM, Vlatko Čingoski, officiallycommissi<strong>on</strong>ed the first state cogenerati<strong>on</strong> power plant, named “Energetika”, <strong>on</strong> the 15 February <strong>2010</strong>.The cogenerati<strong>on</strong> power plant will produce both electrical and thermal energy. It is expected to have anannual producti<strong>on</strong> of up to 160 GWh of electricity. It has the potential to produce up to 200 GWh ofthermal energy. Natural gas will be used as the operating fuel.OilDEVELOPMENT PRIORITIES/PROJECTSMaced<strong>on</strong>ia has no domestic oil reserves or crude oil producti<strong>on</strong> so the country is totally import-dependent.The geo-strategic positi<strong>on</strong> of Maced<strong>on</strong>ia, as a natural juncti<strong>on</strong> of the west and east is not beingproperly utilized c<strong>on</strong>sidering the oil infrastructure that has been c<strong>on</strong>structed so far. There have been1 Read more <strong>on</strong> Makpetrol a.d. in the “Participants” part2 More <strong>on</strong> GA MA in the “Participants” part3 More <strong>on</strong> ERC in the “participants” part4 Source: <strong>Energy</strong> Balance of the Republic of Maced<strong>on</strong>ia for 20095 Source: ELEM6 Source: MoE

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