Macedonia Calls Tender to Import 355,261 MWh Of Electricity

ELEM said the bidding deadline is December 10. The tender notice did not specify an import price.

Macedonia, a country of two million people, consumes around eight million MWh of electricity per year and imports some 40% of the energy it needs. The country faces serious challenges in its power infrastructure, including insufficient power links with its neighbours.

Macedonia has split its communist era power monopoly ESM in 2005 into a generation unit called ELEM, a distribution unit ESM and a transmission company MEPSO AD. The southeast European country has sold 90% of the power distributor ESM to Austrian utility EVN.