/ world today news/ The “Borisov” cabinet managed to finally close three energy projects, its activity is an imitation, claims energy expert Elenko Bozhkov.
“The entire activity of the Borisov cabinet in all departments and parts of the economy can be called imitation. This mostly applies to the energy sector.
It should be emphasized that he managed to finally close Bulgaria’s doors to three important energy projects, as Vice Prime Minister Rumiana Bachvarova admitted. The government of Boyko Borisov and Borisov himself slammed the doors on South Stream, Belene NPP and the Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline, they are about to close and destroy the project to build unit 7 of the Kozloduy NPP by the American company Westinghouse , claims Bozhkov.
As a person who worked at the KEVR, the expert claims that the only meaningful thing that has been done so far is the changes in the Energy Law, concerning two things: 1. The independence of the KEVR by being elected by the National Assembly, but only until here, because splitting the commission into two subcommittees was not a good decision.
The second is the positive changes that were made in the cogeneration part – the change related to the hourly availability of the high-efficiency cogeneration plants, as well as the measurement of the heat output.
The renegotiation with the two so-called American power plants – TPP “AY I ES Maritsa Iztok 1” and TPP “Contour Global Maritsa Iztok 3” – is an extraordinary sham and a smearing of the eyes of the public. Just a few days ago, at a press conference, the authorities themselves admitted that the result of this clumsy action called renegotiation will be a new tax that will affect all Bulgarian citizens – a public obligation to these American headquarters.
As a member of the commission for energy and water regulation during the time of Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski, Bozhkov believes that the so-called “American power plants” can be returned to the Bulgarian state. The biggest challenges have to do with pricing for the end user. This can only be done if the contracts with the two American plants are broken and a way to compensate is sought. I am convinced that the treaties can be broken with the help of the EU. An option is for the state to buy these two plants. About 1 billion will be enough for this, with which their owners will be paid and the liabilities will be covered.
The other challenges are related to the operation of renewable energy sources /RES/ and investments. There are currently two major projects awaiting their decision. The first project is related to the construction of new power in the “Maritsa Iztok” complex – there is an opportunity to build 600 MW, which can operate for at least one 40 years. The second project is the construction of a new nuclear power plant.
Bozhkov also warns about the years-delayed energy exchange – The other big challenge is to liberalize the energy market in the near future, so that it will be completely freed from 2016. The energy exchange must also work. Why are they silent and not saying anything about what is happening with this exchange? It is heard that she would leave BEH and be subordinated to the Ministry of Finance, which is nonsense. There is no such thing in Europe, concludes his comment for BGNES Elenko Bozhkov
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