LJUBLJANA: BILL FOR UNDELIVERED POWER TOO HIGH

LJUBLJANA, May 19 (Hina) - The Slovene environment ministry said on Monday the electrical bill which, according to Slovene sources, the Croatian Power Company (HEP) sent to the Slovene government last week, was too high. #L# "The HEP is asking for almost US$54 million, which is excessive and unrealistic," says the ministry. Slovene officials say that the HEP's bill for electricity which was never delivered to Croatia from mid-2002 to April this year, when the HEP again started receiving electricity from the jointly-owned Krsko nuclear power plant, was "excessive and calculated on unrealistic suppositions". (hina) lml sb