JSC EMV announces tender to extract and transport around 1 million tons of coal a year from Kosovo

JSC EMV announced a tender yesterday to select a private operator to extract waste material and coal from the Obiliq mine in Kosovo, process and analyze the coal, and then transport it to North Macedonia’s TEC Manastir and TEC Oslomej power plants. The tender is part of an agreement between EMV and Kosovo’s energy company, KEK, to secure additional coal for electricity production in Macedonia.

The tender documents call for the delivery of around 1 million tons of coal a year, averaging about 2,500 tons a day. The daily amount may vary by up to 30 percent in either direction. The selected operator’s contract will run for 36 months.

EMV negotiates the purchase of the coal from Kosovo’s KEK. The private operator, meanwhile, will be responsible for extracting the waste material and coal, processing and analyzing the coal, and transporting it to the power plants in Macedonia. Payment for these services will be separate from the price EMV pays the Kosovo company for the coal.

For this undertaking, EMV is seeking an operator with substantial financial, staffing and technical capacity. The company must have generated annual revenue of at least 750 million denars in each of 2023, 2024 and 2025. The selected operator will also be required to provide a guarantee equal to five percent of the contract value to ensure its proper execution.