ZAGREB/LJUBLJANA, April 16 (Hina) - After nearly five years, the Croatian Power Company (HEP) will restart receiving electricity from Krsko, the nuclear power plant Croatia co-owns with Slovenia, on the night between Friday and
Saturday, HEP said on Wednesday.
ZAGREB/LJUBLJANA, April 16 (Hina) - After nearly five years, the
Croatian Power Company (HEP) will restart receiving electricity
from Krsko, the nuclear power plant Croatia co-owns with Slovenia,
on the night between Friday and Saturday, HEP said on Wednesday.
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The Slovene side confirmed so today as well.
"We start delivering electricity to Croatia at 00:00 hours on April
19," Branko Ogorevec, procurist of ELES GEN and a member on the
Krsko supervisory committee, told Slovenia's STA news agency.
ELES GEN, the Slovene co-owner of the plant, does not expect any
complications with the delivery of electricity to HEP, said
Ogorevec.
ELES GEN and HEP leaders signed an agreement on the delivery of
electricity in Zagreb on April 9.
Krsko, which is located in Slovenia, produces about five billion
kW/h of electricity annually. Croatia is entitled to half.
The power plant is to undergo a 26-day overhaul starting on May 9.
Delivery of electricity to HEP was discontinued at the end of July
1998, when the Slovene government issued a decree transforming
Krsko into a public company.
In late 2001, following lengthy negotiations, the Croatian and
Slovene governments signed an agreement on Krsko, but ratification
took long. Croatia ratified the deal last July, Slovenia only this
February.
The agreement went into force in mid-March this year. HEP re-
entered co-ownership earlier this month and resumed co-managing
the plant on April 5.
Also that day a two-member management board was elected, as well as
a six-member supervisory committee, currently headed by HEP CEO Ivo
Covic.
The supervisory committee should soon appoint four of six executive
directors, on a parity basis.
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