SARAJEVO (Bosnia and Herzegovina), January 20 (SeeNews) – Bosnia's state-owned power utility Elektroprivreda BiH (EPBiH) said it has signed a contract with a local consortium for construction works on the site of the planned 48 MW Podvelezje wind park.
EPBiH and Mostar-based companies HP Investing, Amitea and Izgradnja Tojaga have signed a 4.5 million marka ($2.5 million/2.3 million euro) deal for the construction of internal roads and crane platforms at the the Podvelezje site, the company said in a statement on Thursday.
The works include the construction of 8.76 km of access roads and 15 crane platforms, as well as the repair of 383 m roads.
The consortium has 10 months to complete the works.
All three companies will also work on the reconstruction of local road L13 in Podvelezje, a project worth an additional one million marka.
The works on the construction of Podvelezje wind farm, with planned annual production of 120 GWh, will be divided into four lots, EPBiH explained, adding that the deadline for its commissioning is December 31, 2018.
The park, to be located in Mostar, will consist of 15 wind turbines for whose supply EPBiH launched a tender in late May.
The project is worth an estimated 162 million euro ($172.2 million). Germany's KfW has approved a 65 million euro loan for its implementation.
The municipality of Mostar is located in the Federation, one of the two autonomous entities that form Bosnia. The other is the Serb Republic.
(1 euro= 1.95583 marka)