KESCO has announced that consumers with more than 50 employees or more than 10 million euros in turnover will move to the open market, meaning they will be required to choose their supplier.
The announcement also states that this will come into effect from June 1 of this year, while starting from March 6, KESCO will send a letter to commercial consumers asking them to prove that they meet the criteria to continue being part of the consumers with regulated tariffs.
Announcement:
KESCO, as the Universal Service Supplier, announces that starting from June 1, 2025, at the request of the Energy Regulatory Office (ZRrE), all commercial consumers with an annual turnover exceeding 10 million euros, or more than 50 employees, will move to the open market, and they will be required to choose their supplier.
In relation to this process, starting from March 6, 2025, KESCO will send a letter to commercial consumers asking them to prove that they meet the conditions to continue being part of the consumers with regulated tariffs or not, i.e., they must have no more than 50 employees or no more than 10 million euros in turnover.
According to legal obligations, any non-household consumer who exceeds either of these two criteria will no longer be able to continue receiving energy from KESCO at regulated prices. Therefore, KESCO will require them to provide evidence within 15 days proving they meet the conditions for continued supply with regulated electricity tariffs through the Universal Service Supplier. The provided data must be verified through documents issued by the institutions of the Republic of Kosovo, such as the Kosovo Tax Administration (ATK), and sent to the dedicated email address [email protected] or delivered to one of KESCO’s customer service centers. Specifically, the document must show the annual turnover and the number of employees, along with the figures of electricity consumers under the management of the respective business.
The parent company will be considered the basis, and the units, branches, or subsidiaries will be treated as part of the whole; they cannot be considered independent consumers. Therefore, if the parent company does not meet the conditions to be a consumer with regulated tariffs, all its units, branches, or subsidiaries will also move to the open market.
If the required documents are not submitted within the 15-day period, it will be understood that the consumers do not meet the criteria defined by legislation to have the right to be supplied with universal service, and they will then be supplied with electricity at unregulated prices, meaning they will have to choose their supplier on the open market.
This is the second step in the liberalization of the market, following the liberalization of consumers connected at the 110 kV level. Most countries in the region have already gone through this process.
