The Kosovo A Power Station in Obilic. The country gets the bulk of its power from coal. Image: Flickr.
The government of Kosovo this week announced it will build a battery energy storage system (BESS) with a capacity of 200MWh-plus to deal with the country’s energy crisis.
The country’s economy minister Artane Rizvanolli tweeted that the government has approved a program that will make use of a US$234 million grant to build the BESS and increase women’s inclusion in the energy sector.
The grant is being provided by the United States through the Millennium Challenge Corp, a foreign aid agency established in 2004.
The money was initially going to be used to build a new gas pipeline from Kosovo to neighbouring North Macedonia but recent high gas prices have made that uneconomical, the government said. Reports say some of it will go to smaller energy projects…