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The incinerator of Elbasan fled for fur

2024-03-05 19:32:00, Denoncim CNA
The incinerator of Elbasan fled for fur
Elbasan incinerator

Perhaps an inappropriate title, but it is the word that belongs to a 24 million euro investment given by the Albanian government for the construction of an incinerator in Elbasan.

The Albanian government in December 2014, with lightning speed, signed the decision for the construction of the Elbasan incinerator, where 14 institutions responded within a day.

A long investigation by SPAK, with the mastermind of the incinerator scenario, Mirel Mërtiri, who is in Elbasan, exposed his roommate, Stela Gugallja, who without a single lek in her pocket founded a company and with 100 lek rushes in and gets a concession contract 24 million euros, then with lek borrowed from the banks, the investment begins at the moment the Albanian government pays the installments of what it would call a PPP contract, but which in fact was not such, but was a public investment spread over years.

CNA has addressed a letter to Eco-Elb Sh.A, which is the company that manages the Elbasan incinerator, after renting it for two consecutive years because the incinerator is seized due to investigations by SPAK- u, when Mirel Mërtiri, Stela Gugallja, Alqi Blako, the former Minister of Environment Lefter Koka and many other officials are under accusation, the investigations in Elbasan also revealed companies that sell sugar, but expected concrete bills, a tax evasion, corruption etc.

But let's stick to our documents.

Why did the incinerator of Elbasan run away for fur?

It is enough to look at the answer of the administrator of this investment.

In the response returned to CNA, the deadlines for renting the incinerator, the treatment of incineration waste in Elbasan are highlighted.

The incinerator of Elbasan fled for fur
The response from Eco-Elb, Sh.A, to CNA

In point 1, it is stated that the incinerator of Elbasan worked only 24 days in 2022, where it produced 75.9 MWh of electricity.

"On 28.03.2022, when the company "Eco-Elb" sh.a took over the urban waste processing plant, the plant was turned off. The technical staff turned on the plant for a period of about 24 days, where the combustion process was tested waste and the parameters of this process were monitored.

In 2023, the waste processing plant was turned on in April and continued its operation until December 2023.

During this time, defects appeared which led to the forced shutdown of the plant, but with the repair of the defects, operation continued again. Currently, since 21.12.2023, the plant is under repair", says the response to CNA.

So in one year, during 2022, where the issue of incinerators is strongly discussed, it has only operated for 24 days and according to the office data, it burns up to 90 tons of waste per day and has burned about 2100 tons of waste for the district of Elbasan, which in fact it is nothing at all with what we claim to have had in Elbasan, a year ago, in the summer of 2023, where we saw how the mountain of waste burned at the Elbasan incinerator.

According to the official data of point 1 and the answer that you see in the document, it is said that, in 2023, the plant was switched on in the month of April, so throughout 2022 it worked only 24 days and it was restarted in April, but it is emphasized that it was in work until December.

The incinerator of Elbasan fled for fur
The response of Eco-Elb Sh.A

But during this time there have been defects which have often led to the forced shutdown of the plant and it has returned to operation. As of December 21, according to official information, the plant is under repair. During the year 2023, it worked very little, had many defects and now it has entered the repair again.

The incinerator of Elbasan fled for fur
The response from Eco-Elb, Sh.A, to CNA

 

A new incinerator paid for 24 million euros that was supposed to be completed in 2021, handed over to the state on a turnkey basis, has now shown defects after the first year in operation and has not done a full year of work, but has done a few days of work or a few months of work. 

"The amount of energy provided, 75.9 MWh, is only for the year 2022 while the turbine was in operation," says the official response.

So according to her, the turbine, currently i.e. from April where it was turned on in 2023, is not in operation. The Elbasan incinerator works simply and only as a diesel boiler.

According to the data, the main problems are the defects in the turbine that we mentioned above and the non-production of energy and the boiler as well as some electrical equipment, where it is rumored that there is a defective electrical plant, which makes it impossible to connect the turbine to the boiler, the production of energy and other technical details. But the company Sh.A says that the cost of 25 thousand old lek or 2500 lek or 25 euro/ton does not cover the costs for the incinerator.

The incinerator of Elbasan fled for fur
Answer from Eco-Elb, Sh.A

LETTER VERIFIES CNA'S ALLEGATIONS

Already with an official letter, CNA has confirmed what it has said dozens and hundreds of times.

In Elbasan, we don't have a real incinerator, but we have a diesel boiler which sometimes produced and sometimes didn't produce electricity, worked very little and has already been repaired.

A 24 million euro incinerator that goes into overhaul two years after handing over the keys, that doesn't work the turbine, that has electrical faults, that has problems with the boiler and can simply and only be called an incinerator that ran away for fur and turned into a oil boiler, which turns on and off from trouble to justify an abuse, a theft and a scandal with the investment of incinerators such as that of Elbasan./ CNA





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