Project Description
The company, ESM, is the single electricity distribution and supply company in FYR Macedonia supplying electricity to households, industry and budgetary organizations. ESM also owns and operates 11 small hydro power plants.
The proposed project is the financing of a EUR 100m investment program to upgrade ESM’s electricity distribution network. The investment program will be focused on four main areas:
- Upgrade of grid lines and connections;
- Upgrade of substations and transformers;
- Roll out of metering;
- Upgrade systems and administration.
The proposed investment will play an important role towards strengthening ESM’s operations, through reducing energy losses, improving supply reliability, upgrading technical capacity, modernization and automation.