[Valerie Plesch/Al Jazeera]
BIC’s Nezir Sinani was quoted in an Al Jazeera article on Kosovo’s coal country by Valerie Plesch. The article finds that “residents living in the polluting shadows of two power plants may soon contend with a third.”
“For the Kosovo project, they’re using the language in the policies,” Sinani, from the Bank Information Center, said. “Both Obama and the World Bank, that says in very rare circumstances, when there are no alternatives and countries need to develop more coal to develop the economy, that they would support it.”
He believes the government is “putting all the eggs in one basket – basically into coal”.
Kosovo’s first hydropower plant was built in 1935 and experts believe that there is real potential to develop renewable energy in Kosovo.
Currently, there are three hydropower plants that contribute three percent of Kosovo’s energy, and in October the country launched its first solar power plant.