Electricity imports in the first half of this year increased fourfold compared to the same period last year, and 320 million BAM was spent on these imports, Edhem Bičakčić, a member of the Board of Directors of the Bosnian and Herzegovina Committee of Electric Power Engineers (CIGRE), told Fena news agency.
Commenting on the latest data from the Independent System Operator in BiH and the BiH Agency for Statistics on electricity production and trade, Bičakčić (an honorary member of the International CIGRE based in Paris), said that electricity production in the past six months amounted to 6.6 terawatt hours (TWh), which is three percent less than in the same period last year. Consumption on the transmission network amounted to 5.5 TWh.
Bičakčić said that the physical volume of electricity exports from Bosnia and Herzegovina in the first half of this year amounted to 3.8 TWh, which is seven percent less than in the same period last year. The financial effect of this electricity export amounted to 470 million BAM, which is 60 percent more than in the same period in 2024.
The physical volume of electricity imports from Bosnia and Herzegovina in the first half of this year amounted to 2.7 TWh, which is at the level of imports in the same period last year.
At the same time, the physical volume of net exports in the first half of this year amounted to 1.1 TWh, which represents a decrease of 15 percent, while, financially speaking, net exports were 150 million BAM and are 29 percent lower. Although the downward trend continues, a positive net export balance is still maintained, thanks primarily to private companies engaged in electricity production.
“The reason for such poor energy effects is the lack of coal and, to some extent, poor hydrology,” concluded Bičakčić.
