Engineer Gottfried Pschill from Energy Park in Bruck an der Leitha:

„We have 25 windmills, and now we are on the market of Hungary and Romania. We also have plan go to the Czech Republic, but not in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Because, we know that laws are unsaid, and in this job we have to be sure that invest money will come back.“

In the north side of Vienna around Parndorf, Neudorf, Gattendorf i Zurndorf there are hundreds and hundreds windmills. And nobody complaines…

„The only one who complain are people from Vienna who have cottages near villages and they just don’t want to see spoiled nature, when they go
on the weekend…“ - Pschill says.

But, future is calling !

The Bosnian side…

President of Scientific-expert Board of Centre for economic, environmental & technological development (CETEOR) Aleksandar Knežević

Knežević said: „ BiH has no obligations according to EU Directives in field of renewable sources. BiH only have obligation to our legislation. B&H have to negotiate with EU how many electric energy must be produced from wind and other renewable sources. Croatia have to produce only 5,9 %, because developed countries are guilty for climate changes. „ If Bosnia and Herzegovina utilise all potential places for Windmill, it will result with 1000 Megawatts of electric energy. For example only one Thermal power plant produced 2000 Megawatts“.

P.S. Salute under 100 tall windmill shaft in Parndorf. And it’s goes around and around and around….

By Gjergj Erebara in Tirana

Eurus, the antique Greek god of East Wind, had been sometime helpful and sometime cruel with Ulysses. But with humans of our times, seems that he is ironical and very mocking, with our deplored attempts to control and benefit from Eurus power.

Trying to understand the world of energy as a necessity for mankind, I have discovered that Wind Energy is a mockery at all.

According to an environmentalist campaigner that I met in Berlin last April, wind is the only hope of humanity, despite huge costs. But according to an analyst who deals with energy market, “wind produce energy when you do not need and does not produce when you need”. At the time, I had not fully understood the meaning of this quote. What I had understood was that German Government is paying with the money of taxpayers, 18 cents of euro for every kilowatt hour produced by wind plants, while average market price is just 5 cents. But the dream of pure energy is not just costing a lot.

According to an Albanian expert in trading energy, wind energy is also a nightmare for engineers who deal with coordination between market demand and supply. “It increase or decrease abruptly the amount of electricity in the grid, and planers should change their calculations according to the unknown will of God of Wind”, - he told me yesterday. He sleep when we need him, and he wake up when we want to sleep.

This creates to me the perception that Eurus is a very funny and faddish greybeard.

Electricity is not such kind of good which can be stored. Electricity is consumed immediately after the production. Peoples consume electricity as their wish when their wish. Producers and suppliers increase or decrease the level of production according to empirical methods, having in hand the possibility to switch off or on electricity generators, according to the wish of peoples. When electricity supplied is higher than demand, that electricity will be lost. It seems that campaigners of wind electricity think that consumers should switch on or off their equipments in coordination with the will of faddish Eurus.

This is not all! I have listen in a radio program at BBC about another problem linked with energy of wind. According to BBC reportage, a fake market of producing electricity who no one consumes is created by CO2 trading system, founded by Kyoto protocol. The system of trading carbon emissions means that someone who produces electricity with high carbon emissions should pay for those emissions to another one who produces clean energy. BBC had found at least one project of a hydropower plant in India, who really cannot be feasible as electricity producer, but it is making money by selling CO2 credits. And energy of wind is in the same business. They are not producing electricity. Actually they are producing papers.

By Gjergj Erebara in Tirana
Eurus, the antique Greek god of East Wind, had been sometime helpful and sometime cruel with Ulysses. But with humans of our times, seems that he is ironical and very mocking, with our deplored attempts to control and benefit from Eurus power.
Trying to understand the world of energy as a necessity for mankind, I have discovered that Wind Energy is a mockery at all.
According to an environmentalist campaigner that I met in Berlin last April, wind is the only hope of humanity, despite huge costs. But according to an analyst who deals with energy market, “wind produce energy when you do not need and does not produce when you need”. At the time, I had not fully understood the meaning of this quote. What I had understood was that German Government is paying with the money of taxpayers, 18 cents of euro for every kilowatt hour produced by wind plants, while average market price is just 5 cents. But the dream of pure energy is not just costing a lot.
According to an Albanian expert in trading energy, wind energy is also a nightmare for engineers who deal with coordination between market demand and supply. “It increase or decrease abruptly the amount of electricity in the grid, and planers should change their calculations according to the unknown will of God of Wind”, - he told me yesterday. He sleep when we need him, and he wake when we want to sleep.
This creates to me the perception that Eurus is a very funny and faddish greybeard.
Electricity is not such kind of good which can be stored. Electricity is consumed immediately after the production. Peoples consume electricity as their wish when their wish. Producers and suppliers increase or decrease the level of production according to empirical methods, having in hand the possibility to switch off or on electricity generators, according to the wish of peoples. When electricity supplied is higher than demand, that electricity will be lost. It seems that campaigners of wind electricity think that consumers should switch on or off their equipments in coordination with the will of faddish Eurus.
This is not all! I have listen in a radio program at BBC about another problem linked with energy of wind. According to BBC reportage, a fake market of producing electricity who no one consumes is created by CO2 trading system, founded by Kyoto protocol. The system of trading carbon emissions means that someone who produces electricity with high carbon emissions should pay for those emissions to another one who produces clean energy. BBC had found at least one project of a hydropower plant in India, who really cannot be feasible as electricity producer, but it is making money by selling CO2 credits. And energy of wind is in the same business. They are not producing electricity. Actually they are producing papers.

Well, here am I again. The unknown become a little bit familiar. Organizing the trip and reading about Georgia, Abkhazia, the Caucasus, I realized that there are many similarities between that region and the Balkans. Maybe because of the same communist past, maybe because of the same religion. I found many contacts, some meetings are arranged and I was surprised by the warm approach by the people from Georgia and Abkhazia. No more concerns for the accommodation. Even though Sukhumi is a popular and very beautiful tourist place there are no hotels on the Internet. That was a big problem for me. But luckily one of the women from one NGO that I will interview found a very cheap apartment for me. One thought crossed my mind - I can stay 10 days like being on a holyday - if I only had time and no work :).

On Friday (06.06.008) I bought the ticket for Tbilisi. I was “lucky”, it was only 20 euro more expensive then yesterday, because if I bought it on Monday as I was planning, then it could have been more expensive. Turkish Airlines through Istanbul on 15 of June will have “the honor” to take maybe the first Macedonian journalist in the last few years to Georgia, and especially to Abkhazia. Now, there are no stops, no selfcensorship, there is no turning back, no fear from the unknown.

Vodno - Near the peak with the Millennium cross in the back

I was thinking how to illustrate this text for my blog with a photograph. All these things I’m writing about are only a state of mind. Nothing practical, only thoughts and many written pages with hundreds of e-mails, phone numbers, Georgian, Russian and Abkhazian names, visa and permission for entering concerns, planning how to get to Abkhazia (the trip from Tbilisi to Sukhumi lasts 9 hours - more or less), thinking of how much money to take, dollars or euros or rubles…

Looking on the Internet, reading other peoples’ experiences from their travel through Caucasus I realized that I will have to be in a “great physical shape”. That is why this Saturday, even though I don’t have a lot of time, I’m not going to skip my usual weekend climbing on Vodno mountain where I’m refueling my energy, enjoying and in the same time staying in shape. Here are a few photos as an illustration of my “preparations”.

Vodno 2 - Me just a few steps to the Vodno’s peak Krstovar - 1066 meters above the sea (not much but very good for every weekend exercise)

Even in these sunny days, when energetic consumption is lower, people in Kosovo are facing with power cuts.

Supplying consumers with energy these week was terrible, as a consequence of lack of energy production from Units of Power Plant Kosovo B.

KEK has divided consumers into three groups(A,B,C).

The luckiest consumers(group A), which are regular payers, had electricity for four hours, followed by two hour of power cuts. Another pattern had three hours with, and three without power. Consumers in group C had electricity for two hours, and is then left without it for the next four hours.

In another hand, scarcity of energy has forced businesses to look for alternatives, especially for petrol generators. A generator at time of electricity reductions is almost everything. Businesses need them just to keep going.

Since 1999 businesses do not base their production in Kosovo Electric Corporation(KEK), therefore they are forced to buy generators.

During my official research I have talked with people from business, which have same problems with power cuts and they are disappointed with electrical situation in the newly independent country.