The document states that, in accordance with development plan of production units submitted by the competent ministry, in the period from 2021 to 2028, it is expected that the First Block of the Thermal Power Plant in Pljevlja will be shut down, as well as the construction of Hydro Power Plants on Morača (Zlatica, Milunovići, Raslovići and Andrijevo), Komarnica Hydro Power Plant and the Second Block of the Thermal Power Plant in Pljevlja (225 MW).
The aforementioned does not correspond with the plans of the Electric Power Company of Montenegro (EPCG), which in early 2018 launched the selection of contractors for ecological rehabilitation of the existing First Block of the Thermal Power Plant in Pljevlja, while in the request for obtaining an integrated license for the work of the First Block of the Thermal Power Plant in Pljevlja announced that, after its ecological rehabilitation, it will work until 2043.
In addition, at the end of 2017, EPCG terminated the contract on the construction of the Second Block of the Thermal Power Plant in Pljevlja with the selected bidder, the Czech company Škoda Praha, because it failed to find the financier for the construction of the new thermal power plant. In this regard, it is unclear why it is projected as a ready thing to shut down the existing First Block and build the Second Block of the Thermal Power Plant in Pljevlja.
Also, when it comes to construction of four hydro power plants on Morača River (Zlatica, Milunovići, Raslovići and Andrijevo), the authors of the document did not provide information on the certainty of this project. This is particularly important as in 2010 the identical project for the construction of four hydro power plants on Morača was suspended, while in the later years, the Ministry of Economy announced that the project for the construction of a number of smaller hydro power plants on Morača was discussed, rather than the construction of four large hydro power plants.
Such ad hoc approach is unacceptable and questions the reality of the offered development of the transmission network, while even the authors themselves state that it is necessary to update the plan of entering of new production facilities into the system, as well as their planned capacity.
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