The Government of Montenegro gave its consent to the Proposal for Urban Planning and Technical Conditions (UTU), which created the conditions for the start of the construction of a hydropower plant on the reservoir in the village of Otilovići in Pljevlja.
"After two years of administrative procedures, persistent work and efforts of the EPCG services, we finally have complete documentation for the start of the construction of HPP "Otilovići". We have a concession contract, the Government of Montenegro has adopted UT usov, and the next step is to call for a tender for the construction of a hydroelectric power plant, after 40 years of stagnation, this project is becoming a reality," wrote the executive director of the Electric Power Industry of Montenegro (EPCG) Nikola Rovčanin on his Facebook profile.
He told "Vijesta" that the tender documentation is being prepared, after which the EPCG Board of Directors will make a decision on the construction of the hydropower plant in Otilovići.
"In the next month or two, we can expect to announce the tender for construction," Rovčanin said.
The small hydroelectric power plant "Otilovići" would be built in the immediate vicinity of the arch-concrete dam on the Ćehotina river, which was built to supply water to the technological process of the Pljevlja Thermal Power Plant.
The start of the construction of the small hydroelectric power plant on the Otilovići reservoir is delayed because the Electric Power Company of Montenegro has been waiting for the issuance of Urban Technical Conditions since May last year, without which it was not possible to start the implementation of the project.
Workers from EPCG announced that the Draft Amendments and Supplements to the Spatial-Urban Plan of the Municipality of Pljevlja, which will develop this project, is currently being drafted.
"Electroprivreda of Montenegro, as an interested party, has submitted guidelines for the development of amendments to the PUP of the Municipality of Pljevlja, with data related to the construction of the MHE Otilovići. Completion and adoption of the amendments to the Spatial-Urban Plan of the Municipality of Pljevlja is expected by the end of the year", announced earlier from EPCG.
Elektroprivreda will most likely finance the construction of a small hydropower plant in Otilovići with its own money.
"EPCG will review the conditions for financing the project in the next few months. Given that the interest rates for loans are currently not favorable, EPCG will most likely finance the project from its own funds. EPCG estimates that the project will cost around 4,5 million," they answered. recently from the Vijestima company.
The construction of the hydropower plant in Otilovići would take about 18 months.
Last year, the government granted EPCG a concession for the use of water from the Otilovići reservoir for the construction of MHP.
"In accordance with the adopted concession deed, the fee will amount to 6,5 percent of the achieved annual production, with the fact that this amount cannot be less than five percent of the planned production. Percentages of the annual production are converted into a monetary amount at the average price of electricity on the stock market of electricity in the year for which the concession fee is calculated and allocated to the state and local budget in the manner defined by law," the company said.
The dam in Otilovići was built in 1982 on the Ćehotina river, and the water from it is used for the needs of the Thermoelectric Power Plant and the water supply of Pljevlja. The height of the dam is 59 meters, and the volume of the created hydroaccumulation is about 18 million cubic meters.
It will have two aggregates, one that will work on ecologically acceptable flows and the other that will work in periods of medium and high water. The power of the HPP would be about three megawatts, and it is expected to produce about 11 million kilowatt hours of electricity, which at current prices amounts to over two million euros per year.
EPCG explained that the HPP will be able to provide energy for more than 1.200 households.
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