Electricity bills due in N. Kosovo from Nov. 1

Electricity will be turned off for non-payers, and, if there is resistance, EPS will ask for the help of the police.

Oh really. Now its ok to disconect non-payers ah. They have been supplied electricity since 1999 and they have not paid a dime. Now you just provided electricity to small portion and right away this so called electrokosmet is demanding payments. Its funny, ah.

EPS has provided electricity to only 25% of north in less then a week and already wants money for their electricity, how ironic. Ppl should be grateful to KEK and not disslike them, there is NO company in the entire world who would tolerate what KEK has done until now.

Seems that the intimidation tactic of 'cutting off power to serb regions' has backfired badly on 'pristina'.
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Read the story again:
Those tht will be cold all winter along got hosed in this. Only 25% of the power is available. Serbs used it unmetered for everything, now they must pay for very little electricity and freeze.

Electricity will be turned off for non-payers, and, if there is resistance, EPS will ask for the help of the police.

So by Nov 1st no one will have electricity? Not one of one Kosovar minority has paid a bill for a decade (10) in regards to water/light/sewage.

I'm just wondering if EPS will ask for KP or MUP when it comes to trouble makers? MUP can't come...and how are they going to phone 112?

EPS: "umm yes, we are operating illegally in Kosova and we need your help with some none payers."
KP: "we'll be right there to arrest you EPS workers."

LOL

"The Kosovo Electric Company (KEK) has stated that only it has authorization to provide electricity in Kosovo and that all other potential suppliers are illegal."

Ha ha ha! Then why didn't you do something about it? Why hasn't the international community complained? I will tell you what is illegal. The theft of Serbian territory and the illegal decleration of independece. So go and whine somewhere else.

"“I would call on the residents of north Kosovo to understand the gravity of the situation, to use electricity as sparingly as possible and to accept that the time has come when electricity will have to be paid for,” he said.

Electricity will be turned off for non-payers, and, if there is resistance, EPS will ask for the help of the police."

While you were under the "evil" Albanian KEK you had over 10 years of electricity gratis.

Now your brothers of ESP will send you the invoice on 1st of November and if you don't pay- police...

I just can't understand why Prishitna is behaving so stupidly with K-Serbs??? every normal state would put an order in an area such as the north-K even Serbia herself- just watch now with EPS who will not wait for 10 years to send her first bill...

Why Prishtina is taking this hypocrisy from Serbia I just don't understand.

When Serbia want's her money they send the invoice immediately to the K-Serbs...

When KEK asks for the bills to be paid it is presure, ehtnic cleansing and b.sht of that kind.

Unfortunately there is plenty of cynicism in this site just about everything concerning Serb-Albanian relations. Fortunately, people who comment here have no say over what really happens on the ground.
I see no reason why EPS and KEK can not cooperate if there is an economical reason for it. Business is business, and both companies exist to provide a service to their customers; they can only continue to do so if their customers pay for the services they receive. Many here said that Serbs would pay but just not to a Kosovar company; in the same breath they turn around and accuse KEK of using electricity for political reasons, when KEK itself has never made any political statement. And yet again, even under 1244, KEK is the only provider of electricity, and the government in Prishtina is the only one who can issue a license of who can operate or not in the whole territory of Kosova. So any other company is clearly operating illegally even by your own standards.

> The Kosovo Electric Company (KEK) has stated that only it has authorization to provide electricity in Kosovo and that all other potential suppliers are illegal.

This joke of a 'public utility' cuts off power to the entire northern region including all essential services & then bleats about EPS stepping in to fill the vacumn KEK itself created.

Laughable.

Seems that the intimidation tactic of 'cutting off power to serb regions' has backfired badly on 'pristina'.


Kosova-USA:
> Oh really. Now its ok to disconect non-payers ah.

Is a big difference between disconnecting individual supplies & wholesale disconnections to entire regions. But then you probably don't see anything wrong with shutting down the power to hospital incubators & life support systems.

At least as long as they're serb.

> Its funny, ah.

Not in the ugly sense you mean.

In a bid to crush the north's independence by cutting off the power, 'pristina' has actually strengthened it.

Now that's funny.

So any other company is clearly operating illegally even by your own standards.
(Adrian Gashi, 23 October 2009 15:21)

KEK is the illegal company my friend. It is running off stolen EPS infrastructure...

Electricity will be turned off for non-payers, and, if there is resistance, EPS will ask for the help of the police.

Oh really. Now its ok to disconect non-payers ah. They have been supplied electricity since 1999 and they have not paid a dime. Now you just provided electricity to small portion and right away this so called electrokosmet is demanding payments. Its funny, ah.
(Kosova-USA, 23 October 2009, 10:43)

Don't worry Kosova USA. Serbs from North will pay to Elektrokosmet / EPS, but not to compant of false state. Thanks God - we have our power suppy from Gazivode.

Kosovo-USA - I think that the irony you cleverly spotted is the whole point.

And yet again, even under 1244, KEK is the only provider of electricity, and the government in Prishtina is the only one who can issue a license of who can operate or not in the whole territory of Kosova. So any other company is clearly operating illegally even by your own standards.
(Adrian Gashi, 23 October 2009 15:21)

If You defend position of KEK according to Resolution 1244 - than You must remember that according this resolution Kosovo is part of Republic of Serbia.

Albanians first break 1244 on 17 February 2008.

Don't worry Kosova USA. Serbs from North will pay to Elektrokosmet / EPS, but not to compant of false state. Thanks God - we have our power suppy from Gazivode.
(Milan, 23 October 2009 12:00)
It is nice to see someone admit the economic plight of the starving Serbs in Kosovo has been a propaganda piece from day one!

Let's just see what happens. If Serbs of norhern Kosovo pay their bills to EPS on time, we can dispense with the idea they are somehow "freeloaders" as one luminary put it a few days ago.

If in fact they continue to complain and wail against paying, even to EPS, then yes indeed the system in indeed broken.

I'm putting my money on that they will pay, even if begrudgingly, it's to a Serbian company.

"Adrian Gashi, you have the guts to speak about legality after the illegal Unilateral Declaration of Independence of Kosovo Albanians contrary to UNSC Resolution 1244."

(VB, 23 October 2009 16:14)

,and please VB tell as what's the DUI have changed in you?
same story,always complaining how badly you live in Kosovo,barbed wire,electricity pressure etc..have you asked yourself the the proble might be you?
And there you go EPS itself NO PAY NO ELECTRICITY!! simple as that,stop blamin KEK by turning this isue into the politics and pay up your bills like everybody else.

Adrian Gashi, you have the guts to speak about legality after the illegal Unilateral Declaration of Independence of Kosovo Albanians contrary to UNSC Resolution 1244.

Electricity will be turned off for non-payers, and, if there is resistance, EPS will ask for the help of the police.

So by Nov 1st no one will have electricity? Not one of one Kosovar minority has paid a bill for a decade (10) in regards to water/light/sewage.

I'm just wondering if EPS will ask for KP or MUP when it comes to trouble makers? MUP can't come...and how are they going to phone 112?

EPS: "umm yes, we are operating illegally in Kosova and we need your help with some none payers."
KP: "we'll be right there to arrest you EPS workers."

LOL
(KOSOVARi, 23 October 2009 16:50)

Don't worry, be happy Kosovari ;) KEK - will lost problematic non-payers.
They will pay for power to legal EPS provider.

From 1 November - that will bo not Priština problem. And it's very good, becouse North wan't nothing from illegal "authorities" from Priština.

PS. Police in North can arrest KEK workers rather than EPS workers ;)

It is called free enterprise, if you can provide a better product without power cuts i will pay for that. Now if Pristina had balz they would allow EPS to be a provider of power in Kosovo as well. Then we will see how fast KEK goes under. Let me see if i have a choice of 24 hour non stop power or spordic power because i am selling it to Albania hmm i think if am going to pay i will pay for steady power and if i don't pay then i am out of luck. Make sense to me.

'arta':
> Read the story again:

You mean this bit I suppose: "KEK claims that the blackout was a result of an over-worked system, while Serbs in northern Kosovo say that it was a form of pressure from the government in Priština. "

Am fully aware of what KEK claimed.

Am also fully aware that KEK has cut off power entirely to several other serb regions in Kosovo in the recent past. And in EVERY case, they have used the excuse of unpaid electricity bills.

Am also aware that their supposed 'mission statement' says that in the event of non-payment, disconnections to individual households are not to be carried out if confrontation could occur.

Note 'arta' that this 'mission statement' doesn't say anything about disconnections to essential services like a hospital of 4,000 patients, & certainly doesn't say anything about disconnections to entire areas.

Seems that that 'mission statement' is worth about as much as that so-called constitution of yours that supposedly 'guarantees' the rights of all minorities in Kosovo.

Wholesale disconnection is nothing but an 'intimidation tactic' that KEK & the people who formulate it's policy in 'pristina' have dreamed-up in a bid to crush the defacto partition in the north.

Only this time, it back-fired big time. And that's what you & those like you are really upset about isn't it.

> Those tht will be cold all winter along got hosed in this. Only 25% of the power is available. Serbs used it unmetered for everything, now they must pay for very little electricity and freeze.

What a sad little person you are if you can take joy from this - but I suppose it is only to be expected from someone who seems to see nothing wrong with turning off power to hospital incubators & life support systems.

But save your crocodile tears as all this will really do is to teach the serbs in the north to be yet more independent of your albanian mono-ethnic regime in 'pristina' as the serbs augment & adapt their power supply & usage.

albanians never paid any bills for in Kosmet for years and years. All of a suddent they "obey the law?" HAHAHA what a joke.

Electricity will be turned off for non-payers, and, if there is resistance, EPS will ask for the help of the police.

Oh really. Now its ok to disconect non-payers ah. They have been supplied electricity since 1999 and they have not paid a dime. Now you just provided electricity to small portion and right away this so called electrokosmet is demanding payments. Its funny, ah.
(Kosova-USA, 23 October 2009, 10:43)

Don't worry Kosova USA. Serbs from North will pay to Elektrokosmet / EPS, but not to compant of false state. Thanks God - we have our power suppy from Gazivode.

"The Kosovo Electric Company (KEK) has stated that only it has authorization to provide electricity in Kosovo and that all other potential suppliers are illegal."

Ha ha ha! Then why didn't you do something about it? Why hasn't the international community complained? I will tell you what is illegal. The theft of Serbian territory and the illegal decleration of independece. So go and whine somewhere else.

So any other company is clearly operating illegally even by your own standards.
(Adrian Gashi, 23 October 2009 15:21)

KEK is the illegal company my friend. It is running off stolen EPS infrastructure...

Electricity will be turned off for non-payers, and, if there is resistance, EPS will ask for the help of the police.

Oh really. Now its ok to disconect non-payers ah. They have been supplied electricity since 1999 and they have not paid a dime. Now you just provided electricity to small portion and right away this so called electrokosmet is demanding payments. Its funny, ah.

"“I would call on the residents of north Kosovo to understand the gravity of the situation, to use electricity as sparingly as possible and to accept that the time has come when electricity will have to be paid for,” he said.

Electricity will be turned off for non-payers, and, if there is resistance, EPS will ask for the help of the police."

While you were under the "evil" Albanian KEK you had over 10 years of electricity gratis.

Now your brothers of ESP will send you the invoice on 1st of November and if you don't pay- police...

I just can't understand why Prishitna is behaving so stupidly with K-Serbs??? every normal state would put an order in an area such as the north-K even Serbia herself- just watch now with EPS who will not wait for 10 years to send her first bill...

Why Prishtina is taking this hypocrisy from Serbia I just don't understand.

When Serbia want's her money they send the invoice immediately to the K-Serbs...

When KEK asks for the bills to be paid it is presure, ehtnic cleansing and b.sht of that kind.

> The Kosovo Electric Company (KEK) has stated that only it has authorization to provide electricity in Kosovo and that all other potential suppliers are illegal.

This joke of a 'public utility' cuts off power to the entire northern region including all essential services & then bleats about EPS stepping in to fill the vacumn KEK itself created.

Laughable.

Seems that the intimidation tactic of 'cutting off power to serb regions' has backfired badly on 'pristina'.


Kosova-USA:
> Oh really. Now its ok to disconect non-payers ah.

Is a big difference between disconnecting individual supplies & wholesale disconnections to entire regions. But then you probably don't see anything wrong with shutting down the power to hospital incubators & life support systems.

At least as long as they're serb.

> Its funny, ah.

Not in the ugly sense you mean.

In a bid to crush the north's independence by cutting off the power, 'pristina' has actually strengthened it.

Now that's funny.

Kosovo-USA - I think that the irony you cleverly spotted is the whole point.

albanians never paid any bills for in Kosmet for years and years. All of a suddent they "obey the law?" HAHAHA what a joke.

Electricity will be turned off for non-payers, and, if there is resistance, EPS will ask for the help of the police.

So by Nov 1st no one will have electricity? Not one of one Kosovar minority has paid a bill for a decade (10) in regards to water/light/sewage.

I'm just wondering if EPS will ask for KP or MUP when it comes to trouble makers? MUP can't come...and how are they going to phone 112?

EPS: "umm yes, we are operating illegally in Kosova and we need your help with some none payers."
KP: "we'll be right there to arrest you EPS workers."

LOL

Seems that the intimidation tactic of 'cutting off power to serb regions' has backfired badly on 'pristina'.
--------

Read the story again:
Those tht will be cold all winter along got hosed in this. Only 25% of the power is available. Serbs used it unmetered for everything, now they must pay for very little electricity and freeze.

EPS has provided electricity to only 25% of north in less then a week and already wants money for their electricity, how ironic. Ppl should be grateful to KEK and not disslike them, there is NO company in the entire world who would tolerate what KEK has done until now.

Unfortunately there is plenty of cynicism in this site just about everything concerning Serb-Albanian relations. Fortunately, people who comment here have no say over what really happens on the ground.
I see no reason why EPS and KEK can not cooperate if there is an economical reason for it. Business is business, and both companies exist to provide a service to their customers; they can only continue to do so if their customers pay for the services they receive. Many here said that Serbs would pay but just not to a Kosovar company; in the same breath they turn around and accuse KEK of using electricity for political reasons, when KEK itself has never made any political statement. And yet again, even under 1244, KEK is the only provider of electricity, and the government in Prishtina is the only one who can issue a license of who can operate or not in the whole territory of Kosova. So any other company is clearly operating illegally even by your own standards.

'arta':
> Read the story again:

You mean this bit I suppose: "KEK claims that the blackout was a result of an over-worked system, while Serbs in northern Kosovo say that it was a form of pressure from the government in Priština. "

Am fully aware of what KEK claimed.

Am also fully aware that KEK has cut off power entirely to several other serb regions in Kosovo in the recent past. And in EVERY case, they have used the excuse of unpaid electricity bills.

Am also aware that their supposed 'mission statement' says that in the event of non-payment, disconnections to individual households are not to be carried out if confrontation could occur.

Note 'arta' that this 'mission statement' doesn't say anything about disconnections to essential services like a hospital of 4,000 patients, & certainly doesn't say anything about disconnections to entire areas.

Seems that that 'mission statement' is worth about as much as that so-called constitution of yours that supposedly 'guarantees' the rights of all minorities in Kosovo.

Wholesale disconnection is nothing but an 'intimidation tactic' that KEK & the people who formulate it's policy in 'pristina' have dreamed-up in a bid to crush the defacto partition in the north.

Only this time, it back-fired big time. And that's what you & those like you are really upset about isn't it.

> Those tht will be cold all winter along got hosed in this. Only 25% of the power is available. Serbs used it unmetered for everything, now they must pay for very little electricity and freeze.

What a sad little person you are if you can take joy from this - but I suppose it is only to be expected from someone who seems to see nothing wrong with turning off power to hospital incubators & life support systems.

But save your crocodile tears as all this will really do is to teach the serbs in the north to be yet more independent of your albanian mono-ethnic regime in 'pristina' as the serbs augment & adapt their power supply & usage.

Don't worry Kosova USA. Serbs from North will pay to Elektrokosmet / EPS, but not to compant of false state. Thanks God - we have our power suppy from Gazivode.
(Milan, 23 October 2009 12:00)
It is nice to see someone admit the economic plight of the starving Serbs in Kosovo has been a propaganda piece from day one!

And yet again, even under 1244, KEK is the only provider of electricity, and the government in Prishtina is the only one who can issue a license of who can operate or not in the whole territory of Kosova. So any other company is clearly operating illegally even by your own standards.
(Adrian Gashi, 23 October 2009 15:21)

If You defend position of KEK according to Resolution 1244 - than You must remember that according this resolution Kosovo is part of Republic of Serbia.

Albanians first break 1244 on 17 February 2008.

Let's just see what happens. If Serbs of norhern Kosovo pay their bills to EPS on time, we can dispense with the idea they are somehow "freeloaders" as one luminary put it a few days ago.

If in fact they continue to complain and wail against paying, even to EPS, then yes indeed the system in indeed broken.

I'm putting my money on that they will pay, even if begrudgingly, it's to a Serbian company.

Electricity will be turned off for non-payers, and, if there is resistance, EPS will ask for the help of the police.

So by Nov 1st no one will have electricity? Not one of one Kosovar minority has paid a bill for a decade (10) in regards to water/light/sewage.

I'm just wondering if EPS will ask for KP or MUP when it comes to trouble makers? MUP can't come...and how are they going to phone 112?

EPS: "umm yes, we are operating illegally in Kosova and we need your help with some none payers."
KP: "we'll be right there to arrest you EPS workers."

LOL
(KOSOVARi, 23 October 2009 16:50)

Don't worry, be happy Kosovari ;) KEK - will lost problematic non-payers.
They will pay for power to legal EPS provider.

From 1 November - that will bo not Priština problem. And it's very good, becouse North wan't nothing from illegal "authorities" from Priština.

PS. Police in North can arrest KEK workers rather than EPS workers ;)

Adrian Gashi, you have the guts to speak about legality after the illegal Unilateral Declaration of Independence of Kosovo Albanians contrary to UNSC Resolution 1244.

"Adrian Gashi, you have the guts to speak about legality after the illegal Unilateral Declaration of Independence of Kosovo Albanians contrary to UNSC Resolution 1244."

(VB, 23 October 2009 16:14)

,and please VB tell as what's the DUI have changed in you?
same story,always complaining how badly you live in Kosovo,barbed wire,electricity pressure etc..have you asked yourself the the proble might be you?
And there you go EPS itself NO PAY NO ELECTRICITY!! simple as that,stop blamin KEK by turning this isue into the politics and pay up your bills like everybody else.

It is called free enterprise, if you can provide a better product without power cuts i will pay for that. Now if Pristina had balz they would allow EPS to be a provider of power in Kosovo as well. Then we will see how fast KEK goes under. Let me see if i have a choice of 24 hour non stop power or spordic power because i am selling it to Albania hmm i think if am going to pay i will pay for steady power and if i don't pay then i am out of luck. Make sense to me.