The Montenegrin Electricity Distribution System (CEDIS) plans to invest around €2.3 million in the electricity distribution system in the municipality of Cetinje this year, it was announced during today’s meeting between Executive Director Zoran Đukanović and the Mayor of the Royal Capital of Cetinje, Aleksandar Kašćelan.
Đukanović and Kašćelan agreed that CEDIS has been working for several years to modernise the distribution network and facilities in the Royal Capital, and that their cooperation has been constructive and professional, to the satisfaction of citizens and service users.
Đukanović and Kašćelan
“I am pleased that we share the same priorities. For us, work to modernise the distribution network and facilities in rural areas is particularly important, in order to ensure a reliable electricity supply for existing users and create conditions for connecting new facilities, thereby enabling the development of rural areas, especially in agriculture and tourism, as more and more citizens are returning to the countryside,” Kašćelan said, adding:
“We agreed that improving infrastructure is crucial to the overall development of both the city and the country. It is very important to us that a new substation will be built on the site of the former Upper Obod complex, so that we can also support the investor who plans to revitalise it, resume production and employ our fellow citizens,” Kašćelan said.
He thanked Đukanović for CEDIS’s socially responsible business practices and understanding of the community’s needs, as well as for its ongoing support for the projects of the Royal Capital of Cetinje.
“Cetinje is an important undertaking for us at CEDIS. We have accomplished a great deal and invested millions through the electronic meter installation project, network revitalisation projects and individual investment projects. This year alone, we plan to invest around €2.3 million in the electricity distribution system in the municipality of Cetinje. And, of course, we will not stop there. With excellent cooperation with municipal representatives, we will continue to carefully plan and monitor the development needs of our Royal Capital,” Đukanović said.
He said that CEDIS’s achievements “speak” for themselves, noting that the construction of electricity infrastructure signals positive economic trends and that, if global conditions do not have a negative impact, a period of gradual progress should follow.
As a reminder, last year CEDIS launched works worth around €517,000 as part of a network revitalisation project in the municipality of Cetinje. Works on the “Vrela” 10 kV overhead line and the “Bajramovica” low-voltage network have been completed, while work on the “Cetinje” and “Meterizi” 10 kV overhead lines is ongoing in line with the planned schedule. This year’s planned works, in addition to completing the revitalisation of these two overhead lines, include the reconstruction of five 10/0.4 kV substations, as well as the revitalisation of the “Lalino ždrijelo”, “Dubova – Smokovci” and “Dodoši” low-voltage networks.
The exceptionally costly and complex project to reconstruct the 35 kV overhead line from “Humci – Rijeka Crnojevića” to Zagrablje is in its final phase, resolving a decades-old problem with the electricity supply to the water utility facilities in Podgor and Višnjica. The section to Zagrablje cost around €1.2 million, while around €360,000 has been allocated for construction of the section to the Cetinje–Budva main road.
Work is expected to begin in June on the reconstruction of the “Glava Zete – Čevo” 35 kV overhead line, worth around €350,000. Procurement is also underway for two transformers for the “Podgor” 35/6 kV substation, at a cost of around €72,000.
Construction of the “Dragomi Do” 10 kV overhead line is also underway, as is reconstruction of the networks supplied by the “Prekornica” and “Čevo” 10/0.4 kV substations. Around €410,000 has been allocated for these works.
This year, CEDIS will also allocate around €283,000 for works on the medium-voltage network and facilities. This amount is earmarked for the construction of the “Velji Bostur”, “Lipovik” and “Košuta” substations, as well as for the reconstruction of the “Bajova” substation and the revitalisation of the low-voltage networks supplied by the “Meterizi” and “Karuč” substations.
Plans for the coming period include completion of the AMM project, in which, as is well known, more than €100 million has been invested to date. An additional €7.6 million has been allocated for Phase IV. A total of 8,489 new electronic meters have been installed in the municipality of Cetinje, bringing 78 per cent of the customer base into the remote meter-reading system.
