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Macedonia to encourage solar energy

Fri, Jan 02 2009 10:23 CET

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Macedonia's government plans to encourage the building of solar panels for households by subsiding 30 per cent of the costs, said the country's economy minister told local media.

The minister, Fatmir Besimi, also announced the elaboration a feasibility study for introduction of wind generated power houses expected to kick-off in 2009.

This move, along with others, is aimed to tackle the increasingly problematic power shortages the country faces each year, and decrease power imports.

According to the projections, Macedonia is due to import more than 2800 KW of electric power in 2009, which would be roughly about one third of its needs. The needs of consumers are estimated at some 8600 million KW, up 4.4 per cent from the previous year.

The expected power production for 2009 is projected at about 5750 million KW. Energy projections are that about €600 million will be spent on power imports.

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