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The history of the sale of hydropower plants in Albania. Engineer Gjadri's son speaks!

TUESDAY 21 MARCH 2023, 20:08
DRITARE.NET

Today in the show "Albania" on DritareTv, journalist Rudina Xhunga brought the extraordinary story of the two engineers who built Albania, engineer Gjovalin Gjadri and his son, Egon Gjadri. The story of the family was told by the descendant of the family, Ervin Gjadri.
He told in Shqip's studio, with modesty and pride, the story of the scientists who created the works that survived the century. All in the name of knowledge and love for Albania. Ervin Gjadri tells the sadness of his father's last years, while the hydropower plants where he died are sold to 100 foreigners, undermining the work of so many people and, above all, Albania's energy independence. The hydropower plants Bistrica 1 and Bistrica 2 were the beginnings of engineer Gjadri's career, and their sale in 2013 shocked him a lot. Ervini says that he was simply powerless to react because the Bistrica 1, Bistrica 2, Ulza e Shkopeti hydropower plants had the engineer's signature and a large team. Even though they were owned by the state, Sali Berisha in the last days of his government, in May 2013, sold them to the Turkish company "Kurum".
Kurumi bought these hydropower plants when they were in working condition, newly reconstructed from a 22 million euro EBRD loan that the Albanian state is still paying and will continue to pay until December 31, 2044.

This is how the son of the engineer Gjadri expressed it years later: " When the two Bistricas were sold, my father suffered a great shock because he had started his career there, he had the best memories of his life. And above all it seemed to him something absurd. They didn't think anything of it when they sold it. No one asked him. They were sold in May 2013. Kurum, Ulza, Shkopeti and the two Bistricas were sold to the company. The father was helpless at that time. They were functional hydropower plants, more than functional, they were reconstructed with a large loan from the Stock Exchange. About 22 million euros have been invested in Bistrica 1 and 2.



I think that this loan is still paid by the Albanian state. The term of the loan is until 2044. Both hydro plants were at full efficiency and have been very profitable. They produced energy, not as much as Fierza or the Cascade of Drini, but about 10% of their production, i.e. several million euros per year. At the moment when the contract of their sale and purchase was signed, the Turkish firm did not give any kind of explanation and account to the Albanian state . Because 100% of the shares were sold. And foreigners became the owners of all this public property. "- says the son of engineer Gjadri, who remembers in a long interview the time when a team of extraordinary men, led by Captain Radovicka, brought light to Albania./dritare.net

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