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What would be the benefit for the
companies and the households from the
completion of the liberalization? In this
context, EDS’s position on the market:
what is that you offer to the companies?

K. Angjushev: EDS appeared as a new (photo: Еconomy and Business)
entity on the liberalized electricity mar-
ket, however EDS is not a new company I would like to say that contrary to the
in the electrical energy segment. We have expectations that it will bring a price
been engaged in this for several years now,
but in the retail segment. EDS is the only increase at the beginning – I continue to
company with a trading center in Mace- claim persistently that the liberalization in
donia, which is connected with all stock Macedonia will bring a price decrease, all
exchanges, which has its own daughter-
companies in the entire region. This is the way down to the households
the only company with Macedonian capi-
tal and Macedonian ownership, which is ing that job for you, they do everything for
present in the other countries as a foreign you.
investor, unlike all the other companies
coming from different countries, which Your group is not engaged only in
are only daughter-companies in Macedo- electricity trade, you also have the hydro
nia. I would like to especially emphasize power plants, which are another segment
this, due to the fact that the effects from in the electrical energy.
everything we do, remain here, in Macedo-
nia. EDS has the biggest share on the free K. Angjushev: Feroinvest is literally the
market – more than 60% at the moment first company that started with the small
and here we have shown that we know hydro power plants. Our pioneering steps
how to do this job and we are doing it with in Macedonia were in conditions where
quality. I believe that all of our clients are
satisfied, mostly from the aspect of the
savings in their budget, but I also believe
that the liberalization contributed that all
of us, including the suppliers, including
EVN, pay a lot more attention to the cli-
ents. I would compare this situation with
the liberalization of the mobile networks
market. I remember my first cell phone, I
was waiting for it, I had to pay 1000 Euros
for the card, then I waited in Telekom for
three months to get the card. This used
to be a great privilege, while today, when
there are two mobile operators, they are
running after you, giving you free cards,
Moj Krug (My Circle), free minutes – same
goes with the electricity price. You need
to address a monopoly all the time, which
pays no attention to you at all, and now
this is not the case, now there are suppli-
ers which take care of you, which make
efforts to attract you, in order to make an
agreement with them, hence they are do-

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