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OUTAGES AND INTERRUPTION IN ELECTRICITY SUPPLY ARE RARE
Oct 01, 2018

OUTAGES AND INTERRUPTION IN ELECTRICITY SUPPLY ARE RARE

 

Outages and interruption in electricity supply, regarding the transmission network, are quite rare, and in this year Crnogorski elektroprenosni sistem (CGES) will invest EUR 28 million in investment projects, the Assistant Executive Director for Development in CGES Branko Stojković said at the Conference ‘Presence and potentials of Montenegrin energetics’.

A Conference Presence and potentials of Montenegrin energetics, organised by the Business Academy Vijesti, under the patronage of the Ministry of Economy and in cooperation with Crnogorski elektroprenosni sistem (CGES), Elektroprivreda (EPCG), Rudnik Uglja (Coal Mine) Pljevlja and Crnogorski elektrodistributivni sistem (CEDIS), was held at the Hilton Hotel. Besides representatives of the Government of Montenegro, Ministry of Economy and energy undertakings, representatives of the non-governmental sector also participated in the Conference.

‘A healthy and strong energetics guarantees a strong economy,’ the Minister of Economy Dragica Sekulić said when inaugurating the Conference. ‘The Montenegrin Government is focused on the constant development and enhancement of energetics and the valorisation of its potentials, while the increase in the number of investors shows that a smart policy in this area has been conducted in the last period.’

CGES also gave its full contribution to the Conference, through the third panel in which the Assistant Executive Director for Development dr Branko Stojković participated.

Speaking at the Conference Presence and potentials of Montenegrin energetics, he said that CGES should allow a normal functioning of supply, that producers place the energy produced and that the market functions properly.

‘We put an effort so that everyone receive electricity that will have nominal parameters, primarily nominal voltage and nominal frequency. And I think we succeed in this. The quality of supply is a measure of how much CGES functions successfully,’ Stojković said.

He said that it is very important to achieve in uninterrupted supply of all consumers, i.e. ‘to minimise necessary interruption to the smallest possible extent.’

‘We are trying to achieve this and it seems to me that we are achieving better results from year to year. The total quantity of electricity not supplied due to unplanned disturbances, outages on the transmission network, for the previous year was about 645 megawatt hours, or 0.02% in percentages. The electricity not supplied is lower than in the previous year,’ Stojković said.

He underlined that last year no megawatt of allocated capacities was cancelled due to ‘our internal problems or unavailability of our network.’

According to his works, outages and interruptions in electricity supply are quite rare.

‘The product must be high-quality and we have to minimise the period of outages, i.e. the period of no-load pause. We as CGES are improving the quality of our service, we are shortening the no-load pause as much as we can, and I think we will succeed in this even more and be even better, because this is the measure of quality of our work,’ Stojković said.

He said that last year EUR 21.7 million was invested in investment projects, and ‘the plan is to invest EUR 28 million during this year.’