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FLASH MACEDONIA

VIP PRESENTED THE MOBILE TELEVISION

The post-paid users of the VIP operator THE PREPARATION OF
with the new service Vip NOW would be THE STUDY FOR THE
able to watch 40 television programs (local PROJECT “VARDAR
and international) live, directly on their mo-
bile phone, tablet or computer, wherever VALLEY” HAS STARTED
they are. The application offers the users a
schedule of the program for the past 7 days The JSC Macedonian Power Plants
and for the upcoming 3 days, and they will concluded an Agreement with the
be able to return to the broadcasted pro- Swiss consulting company AF Con-
gram for the past 7 days on all TV-channels; sult in an amount of 88.626 Euros
to record content with a duration of up to 10 hours which remains available dur- for preparation of a draft-feasibility
ing 3 months; as well as to use the video library (movies and series available in study for the energy project “Vardar
the catalogue), with unlimited viewing of the available contents. The application Valley”, whose basic task is to deter-
is available for the Android and iOS operating systems. In the first month the ser- mine the possible variants for opti-
vice is used for free and it can be switched off at any time. After the first month, mal hydro-energetic utilization of
the use of the service is charged with a monthly transcription of 299 denars on water potential of the river Vardar.
the VIP postpaid bill. In order to use the service, you need Internet access, which The project envisages construction
is not included in this price. of 12 hydropower plants along the
river Vardar, from Skopje to the bor-
MACEDONIA AND GREECE WILL BE CONNECTED der with Greece, with a length of 200
WITH A PIPELINE kilometers. The largest ones of them
are: hydropower plant Veles with a
Macedonian Energy Resources (MER) and production of 300 million and the
the Greek national gas transmission sys- hydropower plant Gradec with 257
tem operator DESFA signed a Memoran- million kilowatt hours per year. The
dum of Understanding for construction other, smaller hydropower plants,
of an inter-connective line for natural gas are arranged in a cascade along the
transmission. According to the Director of river with a stipulated production of
MER, Krste Miladinov, the projections are 60 to 130 million kilowatt hours per
to connect Shtip and Nea Mesemvria with a year, depending on the location and
pipeline which will have a diameter of 700 the water flow. The realization of
millimeters, working pressure of 54 to 65 this project is expected to bring sig-
bars and with a capacity of more than one nificant contributions in regard to the
billion cubic meters per year. He added that with the construction of this facil- increase of the national production
ity, Macedonia will provide supply of additional quantities of natural gas from of electricity and an increase of the
different sources which will provide diversification and stability of the supply. share of renewable energy sources,
For the Greek ambassador in Macedonia, Dimitris Yannakakis, the signing of the as well as significant improvement
Memorandum of Understanding, among other things, is a result of the discus- of the system for protection against
sions which take place through the measures for trust building between the two floods along the river Vardar with a
ministries of external affairs. ”Particularly these discussions take place in quite regulation of the river bed.
a constructive climate, and the signing of this Memorandum is one of the specific
ways to realize the measures for trust building” – stated Yannakakis.

Miroslav Sazdovski

12 November 2016